December 3, 20241 yr Hi everyone, I’m new to the Unraid world and have been setting up a home server. I created a fresh USB drive with the latest stable Unraid version, and it works perfectly for booting. However, at the end of the boot sequence, I encounter a network error: "eth0 does not exist" I’ve done quite a bit of research and found several potential workarounds, such as creating an empty tg3.conf file. For context, I kept all settings in the USB Creator tool at their default values. When I run lspci, the Ethernet controller is recognized correctly. However, ifconfig does not list eth0. My hardware: I’m using a GEEKOM Mini Air12 Lite with a 12th Gen Intel Alder Lake (N100). From what I understand, this hardware should work out of the box with Unraid. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what I could try? Thanks in advance for your help!
December 3, 20241 yr First time seeing this ethernet controller https://www.cnx-software.com/2024/11/26/geekom-mini-air12-lite-review-part-3-ubuntu-24-04-on-a-low-cost-mini-pc/ The first problem is that Ethernet does not work as while the Motorcomm YT6801 controller is detected, there’s no driver in use as reported by inxi. Luckily, there’s a driver on GitHub that we can install relatively easily on Ubuntu:
December 4, 20241 yr Author Cool! I actually visited that website yesterday, but it seems I missed that part. Thanks for bringing it up again. Now, since I don't have internet access on the Mini PC, I can only download the .deb files on my Mac and transfer it to the usb drive. However, since Unraid does not support apt-get, dpkg, or similar tools, how can I get this driver running?
December 4, 20241 yr You may request LT to add the driver, otherwise you need build or compile yourself. I don't know how to do that.
December 4, 20241 yr Author Got it. Thanks for your help. I've attached the diagnostics ZIP file. tower-diagnostics-20241204-0847.zip
December 4, 20241 yr Community Expert I'm not finding an in-tree (stock) Linux driver for that NIC, LT does not typically add out-of-tree drivers, since they can work with one kernel, and fail with the next one, I do see this: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/[email protected]/T/ But not sure if/when it was merged, it's recent, so even if it were it may not be included with the kernel that Unraid uses.
December 4, 20241 yr Author OK, I guess it makes sense then to return the Mini PC and get another one...
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