[Did USB Key Mount properly? / ETH0 not working]

Type

ethtool eth0

to learn more about the LAN connection

 

Lots of stuff about ports, link modes, and speed duplex etc, but the one thing that looks strange is

 

Link detected: no

 

This computer works fine with Win7 Ult, and accesses the network beautifully.  Yet it doesn't find a link when I put the unraid key into it???

 

There is a WRT 54g router running dd-wrt firmware and 2 dlink 2208 gig switches between this computer and the router.

[Did USB Key Mount properly? / ETH0 not working]

Type the command

mount

and you can see if it was mounted.

 

I get

 

fusectl.....

usbfs on .....

/dev/sdb1 on /boot type vfat .....

 

 

Type the command

ls -l /dev/disk/by-label

and you can see if you set the disk label correctly..

 

I get

 

lrwxr....... 1 root root 10 Dec 24 19:36 UNRAID -> ../../sdb1

 

Is that what I should see?  (Linux noob here)

 

 

[Did USB Key Mount properly? / ETH0 not working]

I have tried 2 keys and keep getting the same issues, and am wondering if it usb key related?

 

MB is Asus M4A785-M with AMD Semphron 140 and 1 gig of DDR2 ram.  Unraid 4.6 installed on Kingston Data Traveller 1gb via syslinux.

 

I just had one of these MB laying around and tried to use it for an unraid test box.  I created the usb boot key and successfully booted into unraid, but at the tower prompt, entering ifconfig eth0 didn't get me an ip address, nor can I access tower.  I didn't have my key named UNRAID first time but I later changed the volume label to UNRAID and still can't get eth0 to show up with an ip addy.

 

I get

 

eth0    Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:e6:ba:a2:52:xx

          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

          RX etc...

          TX ...

          collisions ....

          RX ....

          Interrupt:26 Base Address:0xa000

 

Just before giving the login prompt, I see it doing the following:

 

Starting Network Interface Plugging Daemon eth0

Starting RPC portmapper /sbin/rpc.portmap

Starting RPC NSM /sbin/rpc.statd

Starting Internet super-server daemon /usr/sbin/inetd

Starting ACPI daemon: /usr/sbin/acpid

Starting Samba /usr/sbin/nmbd -D

                    /usr/sbin/smbd -D

 

Welcome to Linux 2.6.32.9-unraid tty1

 

Did it properly mount the USB, or do I have some other problem?

 

[Asus M4A785-M - Level 1 tested]

I just had one of these MB laying around and tried to use it for an unraid test box.  I created the usb boot key and successfully booted into unraid, but at the tower prompt, entering ifconfig eth0 didn't get me an ip address, nor can I access tower.  I didn't have my key named UNRAID first time but I later changed the volume label to UNRAID and still can't get eth0 to show up with an up addy.

 

I get

 

eth0    Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 90:e6:ba:a2:52:xx

         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1

         RX etc...

         TX ...

         collisions ....

         RX ....

         Interrupt:26 Base Address:0xa000