October 26, 200916 yr Hi, I'm running unRAID on a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. Unfortunately the machine doesn't connect to the network. When I run ifconfig I only get the loopback interface, no eth0. I looked in the system log and found these lines: Oct 26 11:11:46 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[919]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing. Oct 26 11:11:46 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[919]: Using interface eth0 Oct 26 11:11:46 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[919]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected. When I boot into Ubuntu, the network connection works fine. So that should rule out faulty network card, cable or router. Maybe unRAID simply doesn't support this particular network card. Any ideas on how to solve this are appreciated.
October 26, 200916 yr Hi, I'm running unRAID on a Compaq Presario 2100 laptop. Unfortunately the machine doesn't connect to the network. When I run ifconfig I only get the loopback interface, no eth0. I looked in the system log and found these lines: Oct 26 11:11:46 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[919]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing. Oct 26 11:11:46 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[919]: Using interface eth0 Oct 26 11:11:46 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[919]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected. When I boot into Ubuntu, the network connection works fine. So that should rule out faulty network card, cable or router. Maybe unRAID simply doesn't support this particular network card. Any ideas on how to solve this are appreciated. What do you see when you type? ls -l /boot If you see bzroot, bzimage, etc, then it is that your old network chipset does not have a driver in unRAID. If you do not see any files, then the flash drive was not mounted properly, probably because the volume label was not set to UNRAID.
October 28, 200916 yr An interesting syslog, ACPI reports a "Lid Switch", so I assume this is an old laptop? There are a LOT of old laptops available out there, so this would be an interesting approach to building an unRAID array around an external drive rack of some kind. Of course, the lack of SATA support is a HUGE handicap. Your CPU boot temp was 68 C, rather high, so I would add whatever cooling you can. If this is not a laptop, then that is way too high. Unfortunately, unRAID did not find a compatible network chipset. unRAID includes most of the common drivers, and a few less common, but to keep it small, does not include every network driver. If you ask, then Tom will often add it to a future release, but I don't know how long that would take. You will need to identify your network chipset, and the driver it uses. Check your Ubuntu installation for that. The 40GB hard drive currently contains 3 partitions. Be aware that unRAID will want to wipe them out. Offhand, I don't recall what messages and prompts unRAID will give you, but for safety I would NOT assign it to an unRAID array, even just for testing, unless you are ready to add it as an unRAID data drive (at which time it will be reformatted).
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