There is a wonderful page on a blind install of a USB NIC card when the on-board NIC fails on mediasmartserver.net
Unfortunately, the site is down and no feedback from Alex who owns it - not sure if it's down for good?
I went ahead and purchased the recommended USB NIC and a USB keyboard to do the install, and of course murphy's law was in true force when I went to open the page with all the instructions and the website is down!
Wondering if anyone else who has done this may have saved the instructions and could send me them?
Would greatly appreciate as I need to get my server back online.
Here is the link to the page that was on mediasmartserver.net
http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/06/22/guide-how-to-resolve-a-failed-lan-port-on-your-server/
Cheers!