ImNotGonnaBeTheOne

Update for anybody who finds this thread in the future: Further reboots didn't change the behavior. As far as I can tell the vendor for this machine doesn't offer bios updates. I'll either move forward with the USB ethernet plan, or perhaps use a different OS. Thanks again to everyone for the advice.

That seems to have done the trick. I copied the files from Mainfrezzer's zip, so the new files were in these locations on the USB drive (as seen by windows): D:\config\plugins\unraid-r8168.plg D:\config\plugins\r8168-driver\plugin_update_helper D:\config\plugins\r8168-driver\r8168-driver.png D:\config\plugins\r8168-driver\packages\6.1.49\r8168-20230714-6.1.49-Unraid-1.txz D:\config\plugins\r8168-driver\packages\6.1.49\r8168-20230714-6.1.49-Unraid-1.txz.md5 Now the plugin shows up in my 'installed plugins' list in the unraid gui. I also verified that change that the plugin makes to /boot/config/modprobe.d/r8169.conf was present, so it seems to have run the plugin on boot. System status now shows eth0's link as UP, but it won't pull an IP from my router. My attempts to set a static IP address in the web tool were unsuccessful. I feel that I'm closer to success, but am back to being unsure how to proceed. Diagnostics attached again. unraidnuc-diagnostics-20230904-0616.zip

I'm using 6.12.4. I'll give this a shot, thank you!

Installing the plugin appears to require internet access (and my problem is I have no internet access). I'm looking through the .plg file to see if I can manually place the necessary files where they need to go. My main machine is windows, and I don't think I can access the necessary folders (/boot/config/plugins/ to place the files where they should go on the windows machine). Creating the folders on the root of the USB Drive seems to be treated as /boot/boot/... on the unraid machine. This process makes me think I'm doing something incorrectly. How should I install a plugin without internet access?

I'd love to use this miniPC if I could, but it doesn't have PCI ports. I'll attempt to use a usb-ethernet adapter that advertises linux support. Thank you for your advice!

I bought a cheap miniPC to run Unraid, and when I boot into the GUI to activate my key, firefox gives me network errors. Network drivers seem to be loaded, but I don't have an IP from my router (though I set the install to use DHCP). If I boot into Win11 Pro that comes installed on this miniPC, the ethernet works without problems. A post I found on the proxmox forums that may possibly be related indicates there may be a driver issue introduced, but as an inexperienced linux user I'm unsure if these these situations are related. Diagnostics attached, can anybody suggest a next course of action that might get things working? unraidnuc-diagnostics-20230903-1907.zip