ive recently built a truenas scale box and whilst ive got some basics up and running. ive noticed that the onboard 2.5gbps nic is detected and works at 1gb speeds as its connected to a 1gb switch, ive run ethtool and seeing the supported link modes showing 2500base can i assume that this would work with a 2.5gb switch without any issues?
now the bigger issue i have is that i purchased an intel i226 2.5gb card so i can use this primarily for ISCSI as thats what im using elsewhere for my cluster servers. although I would also consider teaming the two nics if thats possible as another use case?
in any event this card doesnt even get detected in truenas and i specifically chose this vs the realtek cards which many places recommend against getting. is there a setting or update command that needs to be run to get it to be detected, or drivers to be downloaded?
no ive not tested it in another device yet, it is something i will do tomorrow as ive got 4 additional HDD’s to fit. i saw things light up so was making an assumption it was working, but yeah ofc it could be DOA.
so im guessing that the device is / should work with truenas under normal circumstances just out of the box (linux & truenas noob)
You didn’t list your hardware so I don’t know what kind of PCIe slots you have. Looked at Intel website and it states PCIe 3.1. Are you on the latest BIOS for your motherboard? Just guessing. Drivers should be in TrueNAS. You didn’t mention what version you have.
its a pcie x1 slot gen3. truenas is running the latest versions of 24.10. the bios is also running the latest version, as one of the other tasks on my list is to try and get WOL working
