NASLite Network Attached Storage

It says right on the hardware sheet that the Intel 82541PI controller is supported, and this is the chipset the Intel Pro/1000 GT uses. But even when I follow the instructions to the letter, it just can't handle this PCI card. Any ideas?

Just removed an Intel Pro/1000 MT from my server. NASLite2 USB doesn't pick it up at boot

Had zero problems with the Netgear GA311 - but I don't believe that card supports WOL.

My Intel motherboard with an embedded PRO/1000 controller does not work either (82573 controller). Seems like the driver support is really lagging.

Hm!

The Hardware reference was generated using the PCI IDs as extracted from the active drivers. I'm not sure why the PRO/1000 is not getting initialized. We'll take a closer look. I remember a post here on the forum where someone is successfully running a GT so at this point it is not clear what's causing the problem.

I'm having the same problem. I just bought a Intel Pro 1000/MT and installed it into my Naslite2-cdd.
Took out a old Netgear 10/100 and installed the Intel it booted up and Nas ask for a new unlock code. OK ..took care of that and it ran fine.
Got up this morning and turned on the server. Well it won't even power up. I can pull the card and as soon as it leaves the pci slot the computer powers up. Put the old Netgear back in and no problem boots up fine. I have never seen this happen. I'm at a loss.

Not really Bluegrass,

You are having hardware issues. Make sure the NIC uses a unique IRQ and is well seated in the slot. Try another slot if necessary. You may also have to get intimate with the BIOS and play there for a bit. I'll probably start by disabling the PnP OS option to force the BIOS to allocate IRQs.

The MT is known to work well, so you are probably just having hardware configuration issues.

Notice the statement "won't even power up"?

I've experienced it with that card also - it's not an IRQ problem, neither the BIOS or the OS have reached the stage of assigning an IRQ.

I was able to get it to work in a different PCI slot - the system I was using had two PCI busses and the system would not powerup if the NIC was in any slot on the first PCI bus, and throughput was disappointing with it on the second PCI bus.

thanks for the suggestions guys. I ended up changing a setting in the bios refering to flash pnp something or other. Just kinda of stumbled on it. I figured since it was occuring with the power off it had to be something in the bios flash memory (not to good with the nomenclature here). I still feel like I'm not getting the most out of this card.

It was strange that the system wouldn't boot but (and I don't make a habit of this) as soon as I would grab the network card and lift it out of the slot the computer would power up. I mean cpu fan running, floppy and harddrive and cdrom being accessed.

Sounds like maybe the system *was* booting, but the video wasn't initializing. Could be a conflict with the vid adapter.