Just thought I'ld toss it out here for anyone interested in the smaller boxes: the ECS 945GCT-D seems to work just fine although I forgot to test the onboard NIC.  Since its just 100mbit I tossed in a DGE-530T and it worked. It seems that unlike my other motherboards, the onboard nic isn't taking priority although I would still suggest disabling it if its not being used.

 

If you want it to boot from USB by default, you will have to set the USB drive as a Hard Drive in the unlabeled boot order section.

 

I currently have the parity drive in the box, and my data drives in an esata unit.  With the parity drive after its finished booting it sits ~ 34watts measured with one of those Blue Planet EM100 (kill-a-watt like device).

 

Will post back with more details soon.

Thanks for the report.  Before it is added to the Hardware Compatibility page, I would prefer knowing if the NIC is compatible or not.  Would you or someone else have a chance to test it?  If you have any board related links, it would save some time, things like the Manufacturer's product page, a mainstream vendor's product page for it, etc.

Thanks for the report.  Before it is added to the Hardware Compatibility page, I would prefer knowing if the NIC is compatible or not.  Would you or someone else have a chance to test it?  If you have any board related links, it would save some time, things like the Manufacturer's product page, a mainstream vendor's product page for it, etc.

 

here is the link to the manufacturers website.  It looks like it has the ATHEROS AR8112 10/100 Mbps PHY LAN card.

I have added it, but with a note about the NIC.  Happy to remove note when confirmed.

That's a negative on the onboard.

 

I took out the D-Link PCI NIC, ensured that the onboard was enabled in the BIOS nothing showed up in unRAID.  Although a long shot (can't see the relevance) I tried toggling the bootrom option in the BIOS, no effect.  No DHCP leases, network activity, nor eth0 present.  All I have is the connection light.  It works outside of unRAID though, just figured I'ld verify that its not my particular board.  If there's any further investigation I should do for the completeness of the Wiki let me know.  For the meantime I'm content with my PCI one.

 

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That's a negative on the onboard.

 

I took out the D-Link PCI NIC, ensured that the onboard was enabled in the BIOS nothing showed up in unRAID.  Although a long shot (can't see the relevance) I tried toggling the bootrom option in the BIOS, no effect.  No DHCP leases, network activity, nor eth0 present.  All I have is the connection light.  It works outside of unRAID though, just figured I'ld verify that its not my particular board.  If there's any further investigation I should do for the completeness of the Wiki let me know.  For the meantime I'm content with my PCI one.

 

Editted original title.

 

If it is possible to temporarily install a slackware development environment on a spare drive, the nic may be detected.

If so, then we can ask tom to add the driver to the unRAID distribution for the future.

 

Having a little trouble in the Slackware department, will report back later if/when I get that working.  Haven't quite made it to run-level 1.  Might be next weekend's project.

Any luck on the NIC?

Got my build complete, just 1 slot for either NIC or SATA.

 

I can try and install slackware and see if the NIC works.

Actually I guess this PCIex NIC would solve the issues

 

RTL8111B

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833166019

I'm almost positive we have users with that chipset, but if you check the Newegg reviews, you will quickly run into one with a 'Manufacturer's Response' that says this card is not compatible with Linux.  Perhaps it's an ignorant rep, but that's not very promising!