Mark Knecht wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 9:08 PM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com > <mailto:rdalek1...@gmail.com>> wrote: > <SNIP> > > 2: Hardware change. The Dell comes with a 100MB network card. I > > ordered a 1GB card. I plan to put it in when it gets here. Will it see > > the new card and work automatically or will it take some work to get the > > network going? On my Gentoo rig, I have to enable drivers in the kernel > > and recompile. I'm not sure about BSD tho. Since it is sort of a > > binary thing, does TrueNAS handle hardware changes such as a network > > card well? > <SNIP> > > At the risk of repeating a bit of what Frank said I'll put in my 2 > cents as a > TrueNAS user. No intention to be snarky on my side, just pointing > a few things out. > > 1) Welcome to the world of "not Gentoo". What I think you are describing > as a 'binary thing' is, for the most part, the way we work out here. > > 2) I disagree with your description of how "it's done" in Gentoo Land. You > made a choice to put your network driver in the kernel. You could have > built it as a module and loaded that module. Both would have worked. > > 3) Out here in Not Gentoo Land (NGL) they supply you with 100's of > modules and generally installers figure out which ones to load. My main > NGL machine has literally over 100 modules loaded. I don't know what > they do (for the most part) and mostly I don't care. > > 4) While I cannot tell you if the card you ordered has a Linux or FreeBSD > driver, I can point out that on the left hand side of your TrueNAS > dashboard, accessible in your browser hopefully, there is a pulldown > called 'Network'. It should hopefully show you the current network > interface which in my case is called 're0'. On the right you might, > hopefully > possibly see a big blue button called "ADD". Consider giving that button > a push after you've installed your new card. > > I believe you will get this figured out very soon. Continue exploring > the NGL world. > > Mark
1: The binary thing is a distro or package that I don't compile myself. So, yea, not Gentoo. 2: True for some I guess. The only module I have is my video drivers. I build everything else I need into the kernel. It's how I learned to do it ages ago and so far, it works really well. BSD tho may do that a different way. I played with BSD once years ago. I been doing the Gentoo way for a LOT longer. Last binary distro I used was Mandrake and it changed names a long time ago I think. 3: That's what I'm hoping for but with no recent BSD experience and not able to find info with google, I hoped someone who used TrueNAS or BSD would know how its done. A couple people did. ;-) 4: I have a monitor hooked up still so I can do it the text way if needed. It mentions about setting up the network as one of the options. Since you mentioned it has a GUI option, I may just do that. So long as it works. Thanks for the info. It helped. Dale :-) :-)
