I downloaded nethsecurity-8-23.05.5-ns.1.3.0-x86-64-generic-squashfs-combined-efi and made a bootable flash drive. Booted up and did a ns-install on a dell inspiron 620 that was my old nethserver 7 that had crashed.
The box i’m installing on has three nics, but only one of them is being used, by the local network. When I go into the network configuration screen only eth0 is shown and there’s no configure button to add another interface. The other options are to configure logical interface and vlan device. The other two nics are intel pro1000 and syskonnect sk-9e21d, the interface that connects is a realtek rtl8111/8168/8211/8411. The other two nics do show in a lsusb command.
Am I missing something to get at least one other interface running for wan access?
You’re mixing up NS8 (in the Title) and NethSecurity 8, the firewall component of NS8.
NethSecurity has to run on a different box.
I do not use NethSecurity 8.
NethSecurity uses the first Interface as WAN, all other Interfaces are per DHCP available, and are bridged. Once the bridge is removed, you will see other Interfaces to configure.
You are probably connecting to the WAN connection!
The nics are actually realtek, marvell and syskonnect. The realtek driver loads.
Through some trial and error and a lot of help from the openwrt subreddit I was able to get the box on the internet, install the pciutils and identify which driver I needed for the other two cards. The hardware id’s of 11ab:4362 and 1148:9e00 said that the driver I need is sky2. When I do an opkg install kmod-sky2 it comes back and says the package doesn’t exist. When I do a opkg list kmod* it is not listed.
We could build sky2 as a module, but it could make it hard to upgrade the system.
Given that we had some problems with that driver in the past, I’d suggest to use a different ethernet board, either with Intel or Realtek chipset.