Hi guys,

 

I am trying to get a new PCI-e NIC to work. No luck so far, and honestly I think the card may be a bust. I've attached a diagnostics file, where you can see that the NIC doesn't show up as a PCI-e device.

 

The NIC is a 2.5Gb Delock 89564 Realtek RTL8125B inside), which based on the chip, should work with version of Unraid.

 

I've tried:

• 2.0 x1 as well as 3.0 x16 slots. 
• Tried with my on board NIC unplugged.
• Tried with the 2.5Gb NIC plugged in to a switch and not plugged in at all.
• Tried NIC in another PC (will give this a shot tomorrow).

 

So one interesting (i.e. scary) thing that happened; first time I booted with the new NIC (not plugged in), Unraid booted correctly. I then plugged in a cable that's directly attached to another machine (not turned on at the time). The onboard NIC somehow went down, or Unraid crashed (was getting connection refused on the GUI). I've not yet been able to create this behavior again.

 

Any ideas?

 

After a bit more reading, found out that other people are having tons of issues with drivers for similar cards. However, they at least have their card detected.

themachine-diagnostics-20221219-2247.zip

Edited December 19, 20223 yr by Niellles
additional info

Only the onboard NIC is being detected, it's not a driver problem, it's hardware related, could be a bad NIC or some compatibility issue with your board.