I have upgraded my internet to 2Gb. As part of that I am also upgrading my switch to 2.5Gb and already have some 2.5Gb adaptors for a couple of my machines.
Does anyone know if I can add a 2.5gh Ethernet card into an HP N54L microserver? I started with freenas on this, so it has been running a long time.
I have just added a card based on RTL8125B, but although the link lights come on I cannot see it in truenas. Before I dig out an old usb keyboard and find something to connect the vga port to so I check the BIOS, does anyone know if it will even work or if there is a different card I can use that will?
If you’re using core and that is a realtek Chip it’s very likely that it won’t work because the realtek driver has been disabled by default. There were Problems with data corruption on certain workloads with the 2.5Gb realtek nics
Really, 2.5 GbE isn’t a very good solution; the preferred upgrade from 1 GbE is to 10 GbE. But cards based on the Intel 226 chip should work as well as can be expected.
Fitted and intel based 2.5gb card and all working. Thanks.
Now to try and fish the Ethernet cable from behind the filing cabinet and place then as back in it’s correct location rather than in the middle of the floor. Think that will be the most difficult task I have to perform.
