Onboard network card

timmillwood · 5 Jul 2012 at 17:11

I have an onboard ethernet on my old shuttle. Its Realtec 8100c chipset.

It's not working, no lights, no connection, no matter what I try.

Is it dead?

I need two ethernet sockets, but I only have 1 pci socket, any suggestions?

KIA · 5 Jul 2012 at 17:48

Enabled in BIOS?

timmillwood · 5 Jul 2012 at 17:54

LewisStuart · 5 Jul 2012 at 18:07

Is it working properly in device manager?

Duke · 5 Jul 2012 at 18:21

How come you need two Ethernet cards? You can get USB Ethernet adapters, but they won't be quick at transferring. Better than wireless though I guess.

monkeyspank · 5 Jul 2012 at 19:28

You can get 2 or 4 port pci cards but they aren't that cheap
You can also get splitters but you'll need those at each end of both cables

PistolPete · 5 Jul 2012 at 21:24

monkeyspank said:
You can also get splitters but you'll need those at each end of both cables

They are normally for getting 2 100Mb connections down 1 cable - no good in this case until he has 2 network cards.

timmillwood · 5 Jul 2012 at 21:35

It's Ubuntu sever and I wanted to set it up as a router. So one nic would be connected to the modem, then the other to a switch for the internal network.

Ubuntu recognices the card, the model, chipset and driver, but it just doesn't work. I am pretty sure as there is no lights on the port, it's the port that is dead rather than the chip.

I only have one pci socket, which I have ordered a gigabit card for. Think I might have to use USB for the other port. As connect to the modem, 100mb should be fast enough.