February 11, 200818 yr I have been running 2 unraid systems for quite some time now. Thought I would try this new mini itx board. The problem seems to be the built in nic. It judt will not see it. It's a SIS 900 Network adapter The board has the SiS chipset with a Intel processor. It's a beautiful little board and I would really like to get it running to set up some small 5 and 6 disk systems. Any help would be greatly appreciated Bill
February 12, 200818 yr I have the JetWay J7F3E-PB I had the same request to make this driver available. http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1406.0 I would have compiled my own kernel, only I asked for the .config file and that has not been answered yet either.
February 12, 200818 yr Author Well I guess thier not interested in supporting the mini itx.. Really to bad because these newer boards are really catching on. Thanks for your input though... Bill
February 12, 200818 yr Tom has not logged onto the forum since Feb 9th. He has probably not seen your request for support for the Mini-ITX board's chipset. If there is a loadable module for your LAN chipset you can put it into place on the flash drive, add a couple of lines to the "go" script to copy it into place, and then install it as a loadable module before starting "emhttp" (since unRaid is built on Slackware, look in their LIVE release for an appropriate module) Tom does not supply loadable modules for every network board chipset since there are so many and it would bloat the size of his distribution. If it is a chipset used by one of his customers he has regularly added the kernel module to his release. Hopefully Tom will log in and see this. Perhaps a known folder on the flash drive might be created to put loadable modules and then included in the PATH searched for modules. Or modules in that folder copied to the ram file-system when "go" is executed. Either way would allow easier support of chipsets less frequently found on boards otherwise. Joe L.
February 12, 200818 yr I'm sure if enough people ask it will be included. The driver is already in the kernel. It just needs to be compiled and put on the distribution. I'm also looking at some other PCI network adapters that have an embedded switch. This would make the unRaid server a good hub system for a small network. Might be worthwhile to compile all the network drivers and just have them available as object modules for people who request them. By adding an itx unRaid server with a mobile processor and the pci switch, I can eliminate an external switch and save a few watts.
February 12, 200818 yr If there is a loadable module for your LAN chipset you can put it into place on the flash drive, add a couple of lines to the "go" script to copy it into place, and then install it as a loadable module before starting "emhttp" (since unRaid is built on Slackware, look in their LIVE release for an appropriate module) OK, Can you provide a lil pointing here..(please) I had downloaded Slackware 12, installed it on an internal drive, pulled out the loadable module and it would not load. Perhaps I grabbed the wrong DVD. I did notice the kernel's were different. Perhaps this can be wrapped up easily..... Also, if I could get a .config file to start with, I could update the kernel with CPUSPEED support. a larger memory footprint (I have 4GB available to me) and SMP support. Anyone have a base to start with?
February 12, 200818 yr If there is a loadable module for your LAN chipset you can put it into place on the flash drive, add a couple of lines to the "go" script to copy it into place, and then install it as a loadable module before starting "emhttp" (since unRaid is built on Slackware, look in their LIVE release for an appropriate module) OK, Can you provide a lil pointing here..(please) I had downloaded Slackware 12, installed it on an internal drive, pulled out the loadable module and it would not load. Perhaps I grabbed the wrong DVD. I did notice the kernel's were different. I think the kernel would need to be the same... Perhaps this can be wrapped up easily..... Also, if I could get a .config file to start with, Tom said it would be included in the next release and its omission was an oversight. I could update the kernel with CPUSPEED support. a larger memory footprint (I have 4GB available to me) and SMP support. cool. Anyone have a base to start with? I do not... I've not set up a development environment or tried to compile the "md" module. Others have... perhaps one of them will respond. Joe L.
February 17, 200818 yr Author I have been running 2 unraid systems for quite some time now. Thought I would try this new mini itx board. The problem seems to be the built in nic. It judt will not see it. It's a SIS 900 Network adapter The board has the SiS chipset with a Intel processor. It's a beautiful little board and I would really like to get it running to set up some small 5 and 6 disk systems. Any help would be greatly appreciated Bill I don't understand. I have loaded many Linux distros with the above board and without exception they all supported the onboard SIS 900 nic. (except UnRaid).. Don't misunderstand me, if unraid can't or won't thats ok. But I think someone could let us know one way or the other and not leave us hanging with no answer at all. Bill
February 17, 200818 yr To keep the size of the unRaid distribution reasonable Tom has only put a subset of the network card driver modules that are available under Linux in his distribution. For the most part, if a 1Gig card / chipset is identified where he has not yet included a driver module he will include it in a subsequent release. So, if you have an SIS 900 chipset and can locate a loadable driver module for the current Slackware release you can install it on the flash drive, add a few lines to copy it into place when re-booting, and install it using modprobe before the emhttp management utility is invoked. (unRaid is built on Slackware as a base, with many things removed to make the distribution fit the smaller flash drives) Joe L.
February 18, 200818 yr So, if you have an SIS 900 chipset and can locate a loadable driver module for the current Slackware release you can install it on the flash drive, add a few lines to copy it into place when re-booting, and install it using modprobe before the emhttp management utility is invoked. I do not believe this will work. Because the unraid kernel is customized, you cannot load an object module from another version as easy as copying it. From what I recall, you have to compile the kernel with the options you need. I think if enough people request this driver then Tom will put it in. There are a number of these ITX boards available at Rock bottom prices. If a .config file were posted, I would do the recompile myself. Frankly, adding this driver is needed for these ITX machines because they have limited slots. The boards WITH CPU are available pretty cheaply. At the very least the driver could be compiled and just left outside the initrd Distribution for those who need it. Then we can update our own initrd image with the "properly compiled" module.
February 18, 200818 yr Author Hi WeeboTech, I started this topic, and I thank you for your input and support. I need all the help I can get. You are right these boards are great and fast becoming very popular. I'm using 2 of them with freenas and they work very well, but I am also using unraid for my large server. I do like freenas, but I think unraid is better. So I really want to get my little boards going with unraid. Bill
February 19, 200818 yr If I could get a .confg to start with I could recompile the kernel and make a new bzroot. I just dread going through all those questions in the kernel configuration.
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