NASLite Network Attached Storage

What NIC's are you kt7a-RAID users using and in what PCI slot? I have several NICS (3COM 3C905, 3c905B, Intel 82557) and cant get any to work with NASlite-2. I ran setup w/ no problems and am using the kicker boot. When the system comes up and it says "detecting network device" then it immediately goes to "FAILED TO INITIALIZE" and then shuts down. I dont understand the problem. I havent had any problems with these NIC's in Windows on this same system.

I cant tell if IRQ sharing is the problem or not. No matter what slot I put the card in, and devices I disable... its sharing with something. I know the NICs are good, and I get a link status to my switch on everyone when the system powers up. This is turning out to be a lesson in frustration. The HCL for any Linux distro supports the 3c905 cards, so... I dont get it.

hi, I dont have the manual to hand right now but I remember seeing that the Highpoint bios shares IRQ's with one of the Slots. I think its 5, pop over to abit for the manual. I am not sure if those cards are compatable but I know the fa311 works well check out the hardware section where people have posted cards know to work.

Just bought and tried an fa311 and get the same thing. What PCI slot are you folks using this NIC in? Im tired of wasting money on a product that supposedly works real well with older machines. I've disabled the RAID adapter in the BIOS and am running out of options.

Ok... Well... Now after wiping out the USB and starting over yet again. It works with the fa311 and also the 3C905B. Go figure. This thing is really finicky.

After doing some googling, it appears that board has had numerous problems in the past, I also posted a quote from a review on it at the bottom.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&client=safari&rls=en&q=kt7a-RAID+problem&btnG=Search

Hello mstorie,

There really is nothing “finicky” about NASLite-2. It’s pretty simple in terms of operation. The kernel and initrd are compressed, so if you boot to a login prompt, the kernel and initrd were in fact properly loaded from the USB, decompressed (with proper checksums verified), booted and initialized. The configuration is also benign in the sense that there is no hardware specific information stored. The only items that are part of the NASLite-2 config are the items that you can actually change in the admin menu.

That said, one thing remains, and that is your hardware. There is nothing NASLite can do to fix buggy hardware or incompatible hardware combinations. The point here is that we have beaten NASLite-2 to death in terms of stability and performance. We’ve done that on variety of hardware types and combinations by variety of different people in-house as well as remote beta testers.

I can assure you that there is nothing “finicky” about NASLite-2. The only item that may cause such behavior is faulty or misconfigured hardware.