TrueNAS scale is failure to install network card driver

[VincentH]

After installed with versoin 25.10.0 and rebooted, TrueNAS reported error “unknown chip XID 688” for network card RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller. It seems that TrueNAS can identify network but is failure to install driver as we can find network by lspci | grep -i ethernet, but when command dmesg | grep r8169 with error “unknown chip XID 688”

[LarsR]

you could try the fix provided in this post:

TrueNAS Scale and RTL8125 rev 0c

Update: I was testing TrueNAS Scale on Proxmox, but for me - Proxmox was totally overkill to run one TrueNAS VM. So, now my r8125 is finally working. I know, its not supported, because TrueNAS is an appliance, but I want let you know what I did to solve the realtek driver issue: IMPORTANT THIS IS UNSUPPORTED BY TRUENAS AND MAYBE NOT NEEDED AFTER NEXT UPDATES - JUST A HOTFIX! IMPORTANT Disable rootfs protection and activate apt/dpkg for dkms driver package install /usr/local/libexec/disab…