OK, a little help is needed for the experts.

 

I have just put together my first unRaid (version 4.5)  box consisting of a Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 MB with a Athlon II X4 620 processor, 2GB ram and 3 hard drives.  I'm having a problem getting the network connected and running.

 

The network chipset is a RTL (Realtec?) 8111D (according to the MB manual).  It seems that unRaid is using the R8169 driver for the network interface (Using interface eth0/6C:F0:49:14:17:CA with driver <r8169> (version: 2.3LK-NAPI).

 

Everything seems to be working but it just won't grab an IP address.  I have attached the syslog for someone's review.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Doug

What do you have on your lan serving as the DHCP server?  Are you using a router?  Or are you connected using a switch?

 

As you said, the network seems to be detected, a request is issued on the LAN for an IP address, but the server times out waiting.

Jan  7 11:57:35 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1117]: Executing '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'.

Jan  7 11:57:35 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1117]: client: Polling for DHCP server on interface eth0:

Jan  7 11:57:36 Tower logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/dhcpcd -d -t 30 -h Tower eth0

Jan  7 11:57:36 Tower kernel: r8169: eth0: link up

Jan  7 11:57:36 Tower dhcpcd[1145]: broadcasting DHCP_DISCOVER

Jan  7 11:58:06 Tower dhcpcd[1145]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response

Jan  7 11:58:06 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1117]: client: dhcpcd: MAC address = 6c:f0:49:14:17:ca

 

Describe please, using the exact model/brand so we might guide you on its setup if needed.

 

Joe L.

I have a Linksys WRT54G router (which the unRaid server is plugged directly into) and a Linksys 8 port EZXS88W switch which is also plugged into the router.

Have you checked the DHCP setup on your Linksys router?

Update to the issue that I have.  I dropped a 1Gbit PCI card in and everything works just fine.  So either I have a bad connector on my MB or There's something new about the NIC on this MB that unRaid can't handle.