Ok, so my first foray into unRAID wasn't as well thought out as it should have been.

 

I am blocked with the fact that I didn't make sure the onboard NIC (an Intel 82567 Gigabit NIC on the Intel DQ45CB Motherboard) was compatible.

 

I'm stumped.

 

Motherboard: Intel DQ45CB: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=34687

Onboard NIC: Intel 82567LM: driver: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/filter_results.aspx?strTypes=all&ProductID=3003&OSFullName=Linux*〈=eng&strOSs=39&submit=Go!

 

Lo and behold, the driver is e1000e.  Simply put, I cannot get this kernel to see it.  boot modprobing doesn't detect it, and command line "modprobe e1000e" inserts the module, but the NIC does not come up.   

 

The NIC is enabled in BIOS and its link lights are lit.

 

Kernel: 2.6.27.7 November 25 2008

 

Can anyone shed some light on what I'm missing (other than an easily compatible NIC)?  It seems as though e1000e should be supported and work, but....

 

/edit: there is no mention of a network device in dmesg.  i'd provide lspci output, but alas... it's not installed). /

 

tsk tsk.

 

the copy i was playing with was what i was shipped directly from tom.

 

i just upgraded to 4.5-beta6 (just by copying bzroot & bzimage) and "it just works".

 

a) wish i had tried that earlier, b/c i spent an hour or so trying to figure it out

b) it wasn't obvious what version i was shipped.  kernel was old as stated above -- just wondering if i didn't get the latest FINAL.

 

 

Linux kernel 2.6.27.7 is the one that is included in the latest official release, v4.4.2.  And e1000e support has been included for some time.  So I think that particular model (Intel 82567LM) of the Intel LAN chipset was just too new for that kernel, and its ID was added later.  It is a bit newer than any of the similar Intel chips listed in the Hardware Compatibility wiki page.

 

Glad you got it working.  And because of you, if anyone else tries that chip and has trouble, we will know what to tell them. 

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Glad you got it working.  And because of you, if anyone else tries that chip and has trouble, we will know what to tell them.   

 

me too .. now i just need to wait for my raid to build.  i went with this mobo b/c of its form factor and the 5 sata ports. 

 

in addition, working drives:

WDC_WD20EADS

ST31500341AS

 

now maybe sometime this weekend, once the raid is built, i can migrate off of the piece of <insert your favorite expletive here> linkstation quad i have.  that ls-quad is not more than 2 months old -- i moved to it from my beloved old terastations (first generation) b/c of space issues.  i chewed for a very long time before jumping on the unRAID boat - what sold me was the fact that i'd still have some of our data should two drives fail.

 

features i'd like to see (wrong board/thread, i know):

: multiple parity drives (this has probably come up before)

: mirrored data drives (unraid can treat the mirror as a single for calc purposes, and maybe even optimize reads for parity calcs away from requested reads)

: and the far-fetched one: i cut my teeth on slackware, so i don't have a real issue.  but the past 8-9 years i've been a debian guy and man i feel crippled (and a bit learning disabled now) without apt.  and to think, i used to make fun of folks who wouldn't  configure/make themselves.

 

(sidenote, it's not hijacking a thread if it's your own thread, is it? )