Unable to add second NIC to my unraid box

[adilno1]

Hi,

 

I've been looking at this puzzle for sometime and and have yet to come up with the solution.

 

I added a 2 port Intel card to my faithful HP ProLiant N36L to complement/replacement for the onboard (NetXtreme) but have not been able to see it detected in ifconfig nor on the Settings>Network settings.

 

I have seen posts where advice was given to delete the config/network.cfg and restart, but that has not helped.

also attempted to update the update SYSNICS to "3" in network.cfg 

 

I can see it listed in the syslog and lspci but unsure where the gap lies.

 

Sep 30 01:01:50 MediaUnit kernel: e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k
Sep 30 01:01:50 MediaUnit kernel: e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.
 

root@MediaUnit:~# lspci -vv | grep Ethernet
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB/82571GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller D0/D1 (copper applications) (rev 06)
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82571EB/82571GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller D0/D1 (copper applications) (rev 06)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme BCM5723 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)

 

Help is greatly appreciated.

 

mediaunit-diagnostics-20200624-0037.zip

[DivideBy0]

The cards are loading fine in the kernel according to your "lsmod" output. --> e1000e. Do you se anything in the GUI? 

 

You should have 3 entries in your /boot/config/network-rules.cfg

 

Something like this but I have 4 interfaces so this is just an example:

 

 

root@NAS-UNRAID:~# cat /boot/config/network-rules.cfg

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1f41 (igb)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="3c:ec:ef:12:46:74", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

 

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1f41 (igb)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="3c:ec:ef:12:46:75", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

 

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1f41 (igb)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="3c:ec:ef:12:46:76", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth2"

 

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1f41 (igb)

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="3c:ec:ef:12:46:77", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth3"

 

 

DELETE both files and reboot:

Make a backup just in case as well  

 

/boot/config/network.cfg

/boot/config/network-rules.cfg

 

 

Edited June 24, 2020 by johnwhicker

[adilno1]

Thanks for picking this up.

 

The GUI shows a single interface (pls see attached screenshot).

 

Worryingly I dont have a network-rules.cfg file in the /boot/config/ folder. Perhaps its something I did whilst performing the Unraid OS upgrades via the old approach some years back (v4>v5>v6). I don't  however see it in the config folder of a fresh download of the Unraid of the OS.

 

I've noticed that the network.cfg file is not recreated upon restart but only when i save the settings from the GUI.

Though still without the new NIC appearing  .