The server’s all fixed!

Logging in took no time at all, when I was expecting to have to wait bloody ages for the desktop to come up like last night. I checked out Network Connections and found that one of the NICs was missing and the other was “Limited” due to there not being a DHCP server on the network. The server is the DHCP server and it never talks to itself.

After a bit of fiddling with drivers (the onboard NIC really didn’t want to be installed), and finding out how to unhide non-present network cards from device manager, I had both cards working properly and with the correct IP settings. Once I’d put in the proper IP for the main NIC everything started working as it should.

So I’m a happy duck again.