I've got a laptop which I'm trying to set up as a server (a rebadged Uniwill 223ii0), but it has an ethernet port which is dodgy (sometimes works, sometimes doesn't).
I bought a £20 usb ethernet card which worked out of the box when the laptop was running Windows 7, and worked during the server install, but not once the server was standing on its own two feet, as it tries to get network configuration on boot, then waits another minute before giving up and completing the boot.
Once logged in, using sudo ifup eth2
yields that it is already configured, so bringing the adapter down and up yields with a long DHCPDISCOVER
sequence which yields that "the network is down".
I am using the adapter on my Windows 7 machine right now to write this, and the same cable in the dodgy port on the laptop is working, for now
Any ideas?