j5428 Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 Onboard LAN is a Realtek 8101E for the ECS945GCT-M unRAID will boot and work with the onboard NIC but DVD playback stutters. I tried to install a Linksys LNE100TX, 3Com 3C905-TX, and a Netgear FA311 Rev-D2. None of them will get an IP address when I boot unRAID. These are just old NIC's I had laying around has anyone got one of these cards to work with unRAID? Is there something I can change to get opne of them working? Thanks for any help. Link to comment
j5428 Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 Downgrading to 4.0 seemed to fix it but now there is no password options. Link to comment
RobJ Posted February 2, 2008 Share Posted February 2, 2008 I *think* any of those three should work, they are quite common. Did you remember to disable the onboard LAN before testing the 3 NIC's? How do you know that the onboard NIC is not working correctly? There are a lot of causes for stutter in playback. I would time some transfers to and from unRAID, and determine the read and write speed. Assuming those are all 100Mb/sec cards, the top possible speed is 12.5MB/sec, more typical is 8 to 10MB/sec. Edit: you posted before I finished. If 4.0 works better, then your 8101E may be trying to use the bad Realtek driver in 4.2. Using 4.0 or 4.3 when it arrives should work better. Link to comment
j5428 Posted February 2, 2008 Author Share Posted February 2, 2008 I did have the onboard lan disabled when testing all three cards. Is there anything that needs to be changed in a config file for the cards to work or should an IP just appear after unRAID boots? I ordered a NIC with a RTL8169S-32 chip on it. The WIKI says that one is compatible. Link to comment
j5428 Posted February 3, 2008 Author Share Posted February 3, 2008 Update: You cannot add a SATA drive running version 4.0 with this motherboard. I had 2 IDE drives setup as data. I went to add a SATA for parity and it crashes as soon as you select the drive for parity. I re-installed 4.2.1 and it allowed me to add the SATA drive but the DVD playback stuttering problem came back. I will just have to wait until my new NIC arrives. Link to comment
j5428 Posted February 7, 2008 Author Share Posted February 7, 2008 Installed a cheapo $2.99 NIC with a RTL8169S-32 chip from ebay and am streaming DVD with 4.2.1 Link to comment
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