Hi everyone,
I recently purchased an ASRock B550 PG Riptide moederbord for an simple Truenas build. I bought it mostly because of its built in Intel 2.5GbE (Killer E3100G). However, Truenas does not recognize the network controller.
I did some research before hand and I did see that Truenas does not work nicely with Realtek network controllers.
Is there anything i can do to get the Intel network controller working or do I have to buy an Intel i225 v3?
Any information would be appreciated.
Since you tagged this post with āCOREā I guess best bet would be to see if Scale supports it. Generally better driver support on Scale.
Otherwise? Likely SOL.
The āKillerā branding is highly suspicious and all 2.5 GbE NICs are known to have issues, even the latest Intel i226.
Better get a X540/X710, Chelsio T520 or Solarflare NIC.
I will indeed try install Scale and see whether or not that fixes the issue.
Otherwise I will look into the X540, X710, T520 or Solarflare
AAAAAAnd? Did Scale fix it, the internets want to know donāt leave googlers hanging.
The answer is Yes. Yes Scale supports this card and so should Core.
āKillerā branding is highly suspicious
What exactly is suspicious about this branding? Itās the same 2.5gbe NIC that was installed in countless iterations during itās period. Iāve owned this machine for a long time and this NIC has never failed or produced anomalous behavior. Why then is it not supported by TrueNAS?
Donāt know about now, but years ago when I used it under Windows, the killer driver leaked memory like crazy. I would be running out of RAM after about a few days of running and I would start getting Out of Memory warnings cause the driver was hogging 8 GB on its own. The only fix was to reboot once every few days and that was a deal breaker for me, so I replaced the NIC.
Also bit off-topicā¦ what was marketing thinking with that branding name?
I feel fortunate I never dealt with that.
Branding is harder than it looks. But ya, name didnāt hold up to time well.
Gaming. Itās still a garbage NIC, but slap a ācoolā name on it, and people will buy it. Especially if itās cheap.
Best feature was the go-faster red colouring 
I went desktop parts after years of running server grade parts and got the ASRock B650E PG Riptide with the āKillerā Intel E3100G 2.5gb NIC ā¦ I donāt know if it would have worked in Core because CORE wouldnāt boot up on my AM5 setup ā¦ So I installed SCALE. I had a cheap Mellanox 10GBe SFP+ NIC on standby , but the onboard NIC has been working flawlessly plugged into a cheap 2.5gb switch
Currently Iām only running Plex and some SAMBA shares
Its technically an Intel NIC these days. You canāt really complain about and say āuse intel nicsā
BUT its a poster child for the ālinux has broader driver support than bsdā really
Honesty? By your recount, this NIC is a genuine system killerā¦
Dang it. Now that you mention it, I couldāve made that killer pun!
Much doubt. Realtek.
Hereās where support was added to the FreeBSD realtek-re-kmod driver in ports. No other changes or additions to the driver, just picking up the āKillerā Device ID.
This is also the clue for how to make it work in TrueNAS CORE. You need the improved support from that package. If youāre interested there are a few ways to accomplish it.
Intel supports it ā¦ did the āKillerā NICs start out life as a modified Realtek controller?
Theyāre just the most recent to own the brand. Iām surprised that it survived Intelās semi-recent āsimplificationā purge.
Gamer-friendly branding must be a (very) profitable activity, so itās not going away any time soon.
As for us, any hint of gamer branding (Killer, Assssin, Vengeance, weapons of all kindsā¦) should be treated as definitive evidence that the hardware is not suitable for a server.
As far as Iām concerned, any hint of gamer branding, or any reference to overclocking, makes the product unsuitable for ANY use, including desktop. This principle makes shopping a lot easier.
Donāt forget the useless, (and energy consuming), stupid LEDs everywhere. (Stupid for a serverā¦ if someone wants to pimp out their desktop / gaming rig, fine.)
The very first generation of these cards was kinda interesting. A whole-ass networking coprocessor. You could run apps on the cards directly. It didnāt work, but it was at least interesting.
But then CPUs got faster. The brand has been gamer-woo ever since then.
There are still plenty of edgy cool 1337 names in Enterprise.
I submit to evidence: CrowdStrike
You must not use the CS word! The world could fall apart, and the sky fall!
Oh wait, that already happened yesterday. Well, that is proof that monopolies and lack of tiered roll-out are bad.
