I build my first unraid box last week using 4.5.6. I had it up and running using the free version on 3 disk to test it. I paid for the pro and added some drives. While I began to transfer data I restarted the unraid so I could add a new drive. After I rebooted  I couldnt find my unraid on my network. I ran ifconfig and was getting the 127.0.0.1 instead of the 10.0.1.3 my Apple Airport was giving it. I tried a few different things with my Apple Airport and no luck. I then checked all the connections and no luck. I then reformatted the USB and started over and nothing. I reinstalled 4.5.6 and had no luck. I then tried 4.5.4 and had no luck. I thought maybe my onboard ethernet port stopped working. The yellow light comes on but the green activity light never comes on. I booted Ununtu off a CD to see if I could use the ethernet port and the port works. I dont know what to anymore. I figured reformatting the USB and reinstalling the unraid would work, but it didnt. I am at a loss because I had it working at one point and it stopped. Any ideas? I'd really appreciate it. I have alot of money invested so far, id hate to not get unraid working. THANKS!!

 

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What if you statically assign it the 10.0.1.3 address instead of using DHCP , does it work then?

From unRAID perspective, there is no workable Ethernet link. BTW the driver used by unRAID is quite unusual, what kind of motherboard you are using?

 

Oct 26 00:43:52 Tower logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1

Oct 26 00:43:52 Tower logger: /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1:  /sbin/route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.0.0.0 lo

Oct 26 00:43:52 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1496]: ifplugd 0.28 initializing.

Oct 26 00:43:52 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1496]: Using interface eth0/00:24:01:0E:E9:3D with driver <skge> (version: 1.13)

Oct 26 00:43:52 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1496]: Using detection mode: SIOCETHTOOL

Oct 26 00:43:52 Tower ifplugd(eth0)[1496]: Initialization complete, link beat not detected.

 

Well I solved the problem. I finally just took out the Ethernet card and used the onboard card. Everything is back to working. I am not sure why it caused the onboard the stop working but it is up and running. I also assigned it a static ip and it has been working perfectly.

 

While troubleshooting I installed version 4.5.4 do I need to worry about upgrading to 4.5.6? Everything is working so I am hesitant to start messing with everything lol THANKS

upgrading to 4.5.6 is a matter of copying the bzroot and bzimage over to the flash drive and restarting the machine.  I would go ahead and upgrade when you get a chance.

Wow that doesn't seem to bad. For some reason I thought it was complicated. I'll give it a shot