I am one of many with dead asus mobo ethernet port.  I replaced mine with netgear gigabit pci adapter(GA311). I just tried to upgrade to 4.0b9 and could not log on to tower.  Should this card be supported or do I have a different problem.  Thanks. 

Even though motherboard NIC is dead, do you have it disabled in bios?

 

Also, if possible check which chip is used on that card, is it Realtek 81695?

I am not 100% certain what chip is used but according to one review on newegg. 

 

Uses Realtek 8169 chipset. Beware that rt8169 drivers for Linux cause extreme slowness for SMB/CIFS traffic -- speed deteriorates to 10-20 Mbps range. This is a known problem with RT8169 based cards. Vendor's proprietary drivers won't work with newer kernels, so that won't help either.

 

It works fine with unraid 3.  If the above is true, I may need a new card.  Any recommendations?

That card should work with the provided "r1000" driver.  I need to see your syslog:

 

1. From console type:

 

  cp  /var/log/syslog  /boot/syslog.txt

 

2. Plug flash into PC.  You should see syslog.txt in root directory of Flash - please post or send to me at [email protected]

I eventually get to tower login.  I then typed root and get a prompt.  I tried the command to copy my system log but nothing is on the flash when I move it back to PC. 

What version were you upgrading from?  If pre-4.x, please make sure the volume label of the Flash is set to 'UNRAID'.  You can set this in the properties of the Flash when plugged into a PC.

 

It works fine with unraid 3.  If the above is true, I may need a new card.  Any recommendations?

 

Yes, do as the post above says. When upgrading to 4betax from v 3, I failed to name the flash drive "UNRAID" as stated in the release notes. I have the same Netgear PCI card as you and had trouble at first. Then the card worked after renaming the flash drive.