sam_roberts30 Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 Hi, I have finally got my unraid built with 3xx 1.5tb on a free licence. Problem is i can't do anything with it. The mobo (asus m4a78lt-m) NIC doesn't seem to work. I followed the configuration tutorial and got to the part where I had to type "ifconfig eth0" and where I was expecting to get an IP address, I simply didn't. Am i missing something?
ohlwiler Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 Where is the configuration tutorial you refer to (link?). Did you login at the console? You must login using "root" at the initial prompt. After this you can enter the ifconfig command. Have you tried entering the machine name in a web browser? "Tower" is the default.
sam_roberts30 Posted December 2, 2011 Author Posted December 2, 2011 here is the tutorial http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=Configuration_Tutorial I logged in as root, the typed in the "ifconfig eth0" i got the following eth0 link encap: ethernet HWaddr f4:6d:04:02:51:37 broadcast multicast mtu:1500 metric:1 rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overuns:0 frame:0 txpackets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overuns:0 carrier:0 collision:0 txqueuelen:1000 rx bytes:0 ( b) tx bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interupt:26 Base address:0x2600 Then the prompt again... I don't get what i need to do to get the darn thing get an ip address.
gtaylor Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 Do you have a DHCP server on your network (usually a modem/router with DHCP enabled)? If not you will need to manually configure an IP address for your unRAID server. The easiest thing is to ensure that DHCP is enabled on your broadband modem/router.
sam_roberts30 Posted December 2, 2011 Author Posted December 2, 2011 The tower is plugged directly in to our airport extreme WITH dhcp enabled. I checked in the airport utility and it isn't showing up there either. Could the NIC be dead?
ohlwiler Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 Did you try the next section in the tutorial, setting a static ip address? This will work even if you don't have or unraid cannot access your dhcp server for some reason. I run with a static ip this is what my network.cfg file looks like: # Generated settings: USE_DHCP=no IPADDR=192.168.0.160 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 GATEWAY=192.168.0.1 DHCP_KEEPRESOLV=no DNS_SERVER1=192.168.0.1 DNS_SERVER2= DNS_SERVER3= Are you sure your ethernet port is enabled in your bios? Do you have a spare network card to try? Another ethernet cable to try?
Johnm Posted December 2, 2011 Posted December 2, 2011 do you have light on the nic when the cable is plugged in? did you try a different cable?
sam_roberts30 Posted December 2, 2011 Author Posted December 2, 2011 Solved! for some reason the airport would acknowledge the tower. Either with a static ip or dhcp. The light on both the airport and the NIC were lit. The airport had hung, not allowing any new ip addresses to be allocated. to sum up a factory reset of the airport and i now how access to the web gui. Thanks for all your help.
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