How do I set up TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR Gigabit PCI adapter

[dwoods99]

I suspect a faulty on-board LAN and so I bought a TRENDnet TEG-PCITXR.

I disabled the on-board LAN in the bios and plugged in the new card, connected cat5 cable.

I was expecting unRaid to automatically pick up the new card and set it to eth0.

 

On the server

# cat /boot/config/network.cfg
# Generated settings:
USE_DHCP="no"
IPADDR="192.168.1.55"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"
GATEWAY="192.168.1.1"
HWADDR="00:0B:6A:DC:C7:40"
DHCP_KEEPRESOLV="no"

 

Is the HWADDR tied to the on-board LAN (which does match) and I need to change it or simply remove the line?

 

It's possible the new LAN is not seated correctly and would cause a problem, but what else do I try?

 

 

[Ford Prefect]

...yes, remove the HWADDR line, MAC addreses are tied to the individual HW.

Your new card will have a different MAC-address.

If you want to change it, grab the actual MAC from the "ifconfig" output.

 

Also, not sure what chipset the new NIC is based on.....possibly Realtek.

Make sure you run an unRAID version with support for the card (try 5.0RC11 which should at least work for Realtek).

[dwoods99]

To close off this thread...

 

it seems that the HWADDR line was the same on multiple servers since I obviously copy/pasted it.

This also caused networking problems where some media streaming was being interrupted.