Beiträge von nickygerritsen

Yeah I know, but I still thought it would be nice for people to have this in the meantime :).

As there are quite some topics on the Haswell H87 motherboards and Intel NIC's (i217v) that don't work, I have made a guide of how to install OpenMediaVault on them.
It took me some time to figure this out, so I hope that it is useful for other people.

What you will need:

• A normal OpenMediaVault installation media (doesn't matter if it is USB or CD or…)
• Another USB stick (can be quite small)
• Of course a motherboard with a newer Intel network card that does not work out of the box
• The newer Intel driver. I created a zip with the file (e1000e.ko) in it: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hlh21drrgy38z19/e1000e.zip (this is the exact same file you will create later on)
• No fear for the linux terminal. Although all steps are listed, you should not be afraid of the dark screen

Now for the steps:

• Create the OMV install media as normal
• Create an USB stick that is formatted as FAT32
• Insert both the OMV install media and the USB stick in the machine you want to install OMV on
• Boot the machine from the OMV install media
• As soon as you get the question about which language to use, hit alt-f2
• Hit enter, as the screen suggest. You are now in a terminal
• Type
  
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  mountmedia

  and hit enter

• This should mount your USB stick. Verify with
  
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  mount

  and enter. It should say something like (can be a little different)

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  /dev/sdb1 on /media type vfat (rw)

• Type the following two commands:
  
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  cd /media
  insmod e1000e.ko

• This should add the Intel NIC driver module. To verify type
  
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  dmesg

  At the end it should tell you that it loaded the Intel e1000e driver and it found eth0
  

• OK now that the driver is loaded, you can continue the normal installation. Hit alt-f1 and just continue the installation

After the installation is complete, the driver is not loaded again. Of course we should fix this, so let's do that:

• On the physical machine login using username root and the password you set during installation
• Run:
  
  
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  cd /
  mkdir usb
  mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /usb
  cd /usb
  insmod e1000e.ko

  
  sdb1 is the location of your USB stick. If it does not work, try it with sda1, sdc1, sdd1, etc

• Now wait for a little bit (few seconds) and then run
  
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  dhclient eth0

  This will give your network interface an IP address via DHCP

• Now run
  
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  apt-get update
  apt-get install build-essential linux-image-`uname -r` linux-headers-`uname -r`

• This will install the tools required to permanently build and install the newest Intel driver
• Download the latest Intel driver
  
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  cd /root
  mkdir intel
  cd intel
  wget http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15817/eng/e1000e-3.0.4.tar.gz
  tar -zxvf e1000e-3.0.4.tar.gz
  cd e1000e/src
  make install

• If you do not get any errors, you are almost there! The only thing we need to do is edit a file so the module gets loaded at startup:
  
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  nano -w /etc/modules

• You are now in an editor. Use the arrow keys to go to the end of the file and append "e1000e" to it.
• Hit control + x, type Y and then enter. This will save the file
• Reboot your machine and you should have internet!
  
  

  
  

I hope this helps and works for you. If not, please let me know and I will try to help you :).