SOLVED. fallen at the first hurdle!!! please help.

[sam_roberts30]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

do you have light on the nic when the cable is plugged in?

did you try a different cable?

[sam_roberts30]

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.