May 25, 201115 yr Author Really. This isn't the same symptom? Nope! UnRaid detects it and correctly loads the driver. Which is exactly what mine WON'T do. If you ran out of gas and my car won't start, that doesn't mean that I am also out of gas. I can manually use modprobe to load the driver, but what ever is supposed to happen from there, doesn't. The GA311 was the only card on this list: http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility#Network_Controllers that we could source locally.
May 25, 201115 yr If you have flashed the BIOS to the latest and disabled the unused hardware (including the onboard LAN) the only thing I can think of is to move the card to a different physical location. And a wild guess - can you use a regular mouse instead of the wireless USB one. The other thing - you can try to boot with Unraid 4.6 and 4.7 as they (I believe) use different kernels and may just reassign the resources differently.
May 25, 201115 yr Really. This isn't the same symptom? Nope! UnRaid detects it and correctly loads the driver. Which is exactly what mine WON'T do. If you ran out of gas and my car won't start, that doesn't mean that I am also out of gas. I can manually use modprobe to load the driver, but what ever is supposed to happen from there, doesn't. The GA311 was the only card on this list: http://www.lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Hardware_Compatibility#Network_Controllers that we could source locally. It is on that list because it worked pre-4.0. I don't think the 8169 has worked correctly since the 4.X Betas. Also, was that sourced new or used? Like I said, the GA311 hasn't been made since 2008. It's a 3 year old card already. It's entirely possible you have a defective NIC card as well, but it would be an odd defect that allowed it to work in Ubuntu, but not unRAID. You could try booting with a pre-4.0 version of unRAID. It appears the chipset was working for some folks before then. This was from the 4.1 release: For those with Realtek LAN chips: the latest Realtek manufacturer driver does not compile without error for some reason under 2.6.22.1, so we built in the "stock" linux driver. There are a series of patches for this driver which should get incorporated in the next major linux release (2.6.23). So if you have a Realtek LAN chip, try this release and let me know if there are problems and we will attempt to address them. 8169 Drivers still screwed up in 4.2: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=967.msg6569#msg6569 8169 Screwed up in 4.3 Beta 6: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1757.msg12550#msg12550 That poster was actually using a GA311 card. Sounds like they might have been using 4.3 Beta 5, so maybe you could give that a whirl to see if your card works. The 8111/8169 driver has had problems since the 4.X Betas, and still continues to have problems. I personally think you are wasting your time trying to fix them. The only solution that will probably work in the end is to go to a newer Realtek chipset, or an Intel. If you really have to use this card with unRAID, your only chance of success is probably a full slackware build using the latest Realtek drivers. Again, is it worth $20 to get into all that?
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