Full of good intentions, I built my first homelab and want to run Truenas. Installation went succesful, but can’t access the webui. There is no network configuration. Seems to be a problem with the onboard Realtek 2.5G chip, is it not supported by Truenas? Any workarounds?
Motherboard is: Gigabyte B760M GAMING X DDR4 GEN5 with a Realtek RTL81525 onboard network chip.
Chatgpt just tells me to buy an Intel NIC (I226-T1). Besides it being 80€ shipped, it seems like a waste.
There were issues with the driver for that nic (at least on Truenas core) and it may be that it’s still disabled by default, so you may have to manually load the driver with post init scripts
RealTek NICs are not well supported on TrueNAS, and it is a very well known limitation. Scale may do better however you should read up about that specific NIC in our forums, do a better Google search, being very specific in you question. And Intel NIC generally solves the problem, but I know many folks want RealTek to work. This is mainly a problem for Consumer boards, not Server quality parts, however I would not rule out a RealTek NIC on a server board.
And Welcome to the forums. Wish it were under better circumstances but your issue is not uncommon. Please keep in mind that TrueNAS is designed around using server quality components. Also, if you have not tried it yet, you might try out the TrueNAS version 26-Beta (realizing that it may be unstable as a Beta). It is a newer version of Debian and maybe it will have the driver you need, but don’t hold your breath.
Dragon RTL8125BG works great on my ASRock B650m Pro RS motherboard running TrueNAS Scale
I used to run TrueNAS Core on my previous AM4 build .. and I could not even get it to boot went I switched to an AM5 setup… Scale has been working great though
It is not. You chose Truenas with ZFS to keep your data safe. But it cant do that if its fed garbage through a crappy NIC, purposely designed to be as cheap as possible.
