I recently bought a ZT Openrack server from eBay (the seller mentioned it was a OCP server) planning to use it as a simple file server, and it arrived a few weeks ago. However, it appeared to not connect to the internet, and upon further inspection, the interface was not working.
A few things that I should mention first:
- It has one SFP+ 10GB connection, and an Ethernet connection
- Both the SFP+ and the Ethernet are plugged into a Netgear GS724T switch. The switch works perfectly fine with other computers.
- When the SFP+ is connected, the light next to the port does not light up (possibly indicating a problem with either the cable or the port)
- When the Ethernet is connected, the green light lights up but there still is no signal.
- This problem seems to continue throughout the several operating systems I've tried to install.
Here are the operating systems I've installed on the server:
- Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop - What it's currently running
- Ubuntu 20.04 Server
- TrueNAS Core
- Windows 10 Home Edition
- ProxMox Virtual Environment
I've also looked through all of the BIOS settings on the server to no avail.
The outputs of the commands I've tried are below.
ip link show
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: enp132s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:8c:fa:cf:8c:90 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff Setting the interface to up via ip link set enp132s0 up yields these results:
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00 2: enp132s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000 link/ether 00:8c:fa:cf:8c:90 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff But it still doesn't work.
lspci | grep Network
84:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599 10 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01) nmcli device show
GENERAL.DEVICE: enp132s0 GENERAL.TYPE: ethernet GENERAL.HWADDR: 00:8C:FA:CF:8C:90 GENERAL.MTU: 1500 GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged) GENERAL.CONNECTION: -- GENERAL.CON-PATH: -- WIRED-PROPERTIES.CARRIER: off IP4.GATEWAY: -- IP6.GATEWAY: -- GENERAL.DEVICE: lo GENERAL.TYPE: loopback GENERAL.HWADDR: 00:00:00:00:00:00 GENERAL.MTU: 65536 GENERAL.STATE: 10 (unmanaged) GENERAL.CONNECTION: -- GENERAL.CON-PATH: -- IP4.ADDRESS[1]: 127.0.0.1/8 IP4.GATEWAY: -- IP6.ADDRESS[1]: ::1/128 IP6.GATEWAY: -- IP6.ROUTE[1]: dst = ::1/128, nh = ::, mt = 256 nmcli connection show
NAME UUID TYPE DEVICE Wired connection 1 54ead445-75b8-33eb-b656-2520246f6851 ethernet -- Restarting the NetworkManager service with sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager and sudo systemctl stop NetworkManager && sudo systemctl start NetworkManager does absolutely nothing.
I cannot download or install packages easily unless I put all of the dependencies on a flash drive and manually install them with dpkg.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
