Hello all. First off I hope I'm posting this in the right place. Now moving on to my issue. I just bough a Sun Oracle Quad Gigabit port NIC (ATLS1QGE) for the cheap on ebay. Plugged it in and booted but no network activity (no ping from a windows client). So I ran

ifconfig -a |grep eth

This only showed the onboard LAN. At this point I took the card out of the unraid and popped it into my windows box. The card did show in device manager but obviously without drivers. At least I knew that the card was being recognized as a network card. After this I started doing some research on it and figured a driver might be missing from linux (nxge). I tried my best to find a current guide on how to get this driver installed but all I could find was Oracles own documents which provided old broken links. So the question to you all who may have more expertise than myself, Is it possible to install this driver (nxge) on unraid and get this card working?

 

Thanks in advance I appreciate any help you all may provide.

I've never even heard of that one!  Just send an email to Tom at [email protected], requesting the addition of nxge, for your card.  Tell him what you have and need.  He's been very good at adding things like this, on request, where justified.  If you know the URL/source for that driver, that will expedite it.

 

Edit: corrected the support link

Thanks for the reply! I will definitely send him an e-mail. Unfortunately I don't know of the source for the driver as the only links I've found on my searches are broken. But hopefully Tom may know better.

 

Again Thank you.

I have sent him an e-mail on the matter. I will keep this thread updated with any changes that come up.

 

[uPDATE]

Actually the email failed to send with the following error: "550 No Such User Here". Any chance the email has changed?

I have sent him an e-mail on the matter. I will keep this thread updated with any changes that come up.

 

[uPDATE]

Actually the email failed to send with the following error: "550 No Such User Here". Any chance the email has changed?

Try [email protected]

My apologies, I almost always double-check links, but didn't this time.

I have sent him an e-mail on the matter. I will keep this thread updated with any changes that come up.

 

[uPDATE]

Actually the email failed to send with the following error: "550 No Such User Here". Any chance the email has changed?

Try [email protected]

 

Thanks. Again will report back with any updates.

So I spoke with Tom and he was able to resolve my issue.

 

Attached is the driver he provided me. Copy that to the root of your boot flash drive and type the following commands.

 

insmod /boot/niu.ko.gz
inet restart

 

This however doesnt seem to persist after reboot so I added those 2 commands to "/boot/config/go" and all seems well.

 

Thanks to Tom and everyone who responded.

 

FYI: Tom said this driver would be included in future releases of unRAID 6 so it wont be necessary to do this on the next update for this particular card.

niu.ko.gz