No connection via second NIC

[psechser]

checked this forum, but couldn't find a response, so opening this thread ... apologies if repost ...

Here's my situation:

I have a motherboard with a 100 Mb NIC onboard. As my network infrastructure is all 1 Gb I most certainly want my NAS4Free server to work at same speed. So I added a 1Gb NIC, reinstalled NAS4Free image (rev. 847 and some 5xx, too).

The second NIC shows up as a second or third adapter in ifconfig. First adapter (which in all cases seems to be the onboard NIC) works fine. But whenever I select any other NIC through either console option 1 or via WebGUI, I don't get a network connection.

During boot it would show the second adapter to have link, but when it tries to get a connection via ICMP it times out resulting in incapabality to reach out ot my network ...

I tried this with several computers with different kinds of additional NICs/onboard NIC combinations, so doesn't seem to be hardware specific.

Any ideas?

thx
Peter

[raulfg3]

Try disable onboard NIC on Bios, connect new to LAN so it's detected, and do a new fresh install , so N4F only detect new NIC, must work.

[psechser]

sometimes so simple ...

thx!
Peter