thatsmychin
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- Aug 9, 2013
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I wanted to get my FreeNAS on an old ITX 1.2GHz Celeron board for the sake of noise and power consumption. It only has 10/100 on the board, and I'm using the only PCI slot for a storage controller. I picked up a StarTech USB to Gigabit Ethernet dongle and it will not work out of the box.
The supplied disk does have Linux drivers in a tar.gz, however my noob research and fumbling haven't produced any results. I'm familiar with basic commands (but have been corrupted by the GUI), but this is a bit out of my league.
I'll sadly admit that I can't even find a way to access my dvd drive to get to the file from the shell....feeling very lame. A nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
a. Obtain the kernel source tree for the platform in use and build it.
b. run 'make' command to smsc7500.ko module
c. load the module:
insmod smsc7500.ko
d. Plug in the lan7500 device into the USB port.
e. Configure the ethernet interface eth<n> in the usual way for an ethernet device.
The supplied disk does have Linux drivers in a tar.gz, however my noob research and fumbling haven't produced any results. I'm familiar with basic commands (but have been corrupted by the GUI), but this is a bit out of my league.
I'll sadly admit that I can't even find a way to access my dvd drive to get to the file from the shell....feeling very lame. A nudge in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
a. Obtain the kernel source tree for the platform in use and build it.
b. run 'make' command to smsc7500.ko module
c. load the module:
insmod smsc7500.ko
d. Plug in the lan7500 device into the USB port.
e. Configure the ethernet interface eth<n> in the usual way for an ethernet device.