Installation issues with NIC

[viper7986]

Installed on an old Acer AM1100-B1300A (4gb pc2-5300, 250gb & 150gb HDD, AMD athlon 64 x2 processor) using onboard NIC and PCI NIC, during installation it gives 192.168.100.2, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.100.1 for the NIC settings, but my network is using 192.168.1.2-256,255.255.255,192.168.1.1. from my readings shouldnt the installation procedure use dhcp to pull your networks settings? I have tried setting the NIC to the correct settings for my network but after booting it says SKY2 ETH0: TX Timeout and i cannot access web interface from the ip. anyone have any clues? I am fairly new to using linux/debian OS's. Thanks

 

[udo]

Installed on an old Acer AM1100-B1300A (4gb pc2-5300, 250gb & 150gb HDD, AMD athlon 64 x2 processor) using onboard NIC and PCI NIC, during installation it gives 192.168.100.2, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.100.1 for the NIC settings, but my network is using 192.168.1.2-256,255.255.255,192.168.1.1. from my readings shouldnt the installation procedure use dhcp to pull your networks settings? I have tried setting the NIC to the correct settings for my network but after booting it says SKY2 ETH0: TX Timeout and i cannot access web interface from the ip. anyone have any clues? I am fairly new to using linux/debian OS's. Thanks

Hi,
btw. with the atlon 64 x2 you can only use openvz and not kvm (except it's an Brisbane-cpu).

About the network:
you need an fixed ip-address for the host (no dhcp). If you don't have support the right information during install, you can change the config on the GUI (not easy without network ) or in the config /etc/network/interfaces
Your file should look like this (put the right last digit at the ip-address of the node):

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto vmbr0
iface vmbr0 inet static
    address 192.168.1.10
    netmask 255.255.255.0
    gateway 192.168.1.1
    bridge_ports eth0
    bridge_stp off
    bridge_fd 0

To see if eth0 or eth1 is the rigt device for the bridge, use "dmesg | grep eth".
(The naming of the devices can be change with udev, but for the beginning it's easier to support the bridge vmbr0 with the right device)
Do an reboot after changing.

Udo

 

[viper7986]

After changing the ip i saved and rebooted the server and got this upon reboot it is still trying to use the old ip. I have two NIC cards the onboard and a pci NIC. If you notice in the second and third picture it says "Configuring network interfaces... sky2 0000:02:00.0: PCI hardware error (0x2010)" im guessing this has something to do with my issue.

 

[viper7986]

I found this thread on another site so i thought i might try this, http://old.nabble.com/sky2-fails-when-memory-exceeds-2GB-on-amd64-kernel-td27629077.html , I removed 2 of the 4gb of memory, booted proxmox and did not get the pci network error, changed ip for good measures, rebooted network, and was then able to access the web gui from another computer on the network. For some reason the amd64 kernel that is in my computer has an issue with booting more than 2gb in linux based systems.