Hey people
I am having problems installing OMV onto my new hardware. I have been running OMV for multiple years now on my old gaming pc rocking a Intel C2D and 4gb of memory with minimal problems. The hardware has been flaky for the past year with os drive dying and motherboard settings not surviving a reboot. So now with a new job and some spending money I wanted to upgrade to something I could play with and that could take the next 10 years of home server abuse.
So I bought a Supermicro X11SSH-CTF thinking that anything from a company like Supermicro would be supported out of the box in debian or would be a minimal issue to fix. The board comes with a dual 10G nics from Intel and a IPMI port. In the install it prompts that there was no network device found and asks if I want to choose a driver. I choose the ixgbe driver from the list as directed by Intel for their X550-AT2 chipset but it is like there is nothing that happens, the question just pops up again asking what driver I want to install. This affects the end result like you would think, no way of getting the machine on the internet for downloading packages that might fix the issue.
I have googled my patience away and I turn to you people. I have followed many rabbit holes for the answer but always coming up short due to little knowledge, badly explained fixes, missing packages/dependencies or just not having a spare nic laying around.
What have I done to fix it until now?:
-Installed newest OMV without a network device
-Ran lspci and found two Ethernet controllers that are most likely the nics in question
-Looked for drivers in .deb form
-Downloaded and moved to the server the .tar file of the drivers from Intel in an attempt to install the drivers manually
-Downloaded, moved and dpkg "make" in an attempt to make a .deb file out of the .tar driver files. (stopped due to kernel headers not matching)
-Tried to understand all those new things... (a beginner/novice unix user)
If anyone has any advise or solutions to my problem it would be greatly appreciated, I am out of ideas and kinda spent after all that digging, great for learning but draining when prolonged. Thanks.