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?
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.
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 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
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.
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