February 19, 201016 yr Hi, just got unraid up and running perfectly with the Realtek RTL8100C 10/100 LAN but when i switch over to the gigabit lan, it does not get an ip. It is a Agere E1310I Gigabit LAN. On the switch it shows its connected properly on 1000mb/s but does not get an ip (did ifconfig). Could it be this chipset is not compatible with unraid yet? Just wanted to know if there is anything i could do before I go out and pick up a pci gigabit card. syslog.txt
February 19, 201016 yr Hi, just got unraid up and running perfectly with the Realtek RTL8100C 10/100 LAN but when i switch over to the gigabit lan, it does not get an ip. It is a Agere E1310I Gigabit LAN. On the switch it shows its connected properly on 1000mb/s but does not get an ip (did ifconfig). Could it be this chipset is not compatible with unraid yet? Just wanted to know if there is anything i could do before I go out and pick up a pci gigabit card. How do you switch over to the gigabit lan? Unplug the cable from one slot and plug it in the other, while unRAID is running? That will not work. When unRAID boots it assigns the first NIC it sees to be eth0 and uses that. In the syslog we see that your 100 Megabit Realtek NIC is being used as eth0. Is the Realtek NIC embedded on the motherboard? If so, then you should disable the Realtek NIC in the BIOS and try again.
February 19, 201016 yr Author Even if i powerdown the server and plug the ethernet to the gigabit lan, it still connects to the realtek 10/100 lan. (the Realtek lan is onboard, same with the gigabit lan) In bios i have enabled gigabit lan controller and even tried disabling onboard lan but that results in unraid not finding any ethernet devices. syslog021910.txt
February 19, 201016 yr A quick google search seems to indicate your Agere chipset uses the et131x driver. The driver for your Agere LAN chipset does not exist in unRAID. Therefore, the port will not be recognized in unRAID. Best you can do is send an e-mail to lime-tech asking they include the et131x driver in some future version of unRAID. In the interim, use the slower port on your server, or purchase an inexpensive LAN card that has a supported chipset and use it after disabling both the built-in chipsets in your MB BIOS.
February 19, 201016 yr Author thanks. I'll definately email limetech and hope they include it for future releases. In the meantime guess ill be picking up the D-Link DGE-530T.
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