RN102 Invisible on network after move

Heya,

Got this RN102 that's been a tank for years and has already suffered through several moves.

This move, when rebuilding my lan, I am unable to get the RN102 registered on the network.  The nas powers up just fine and all the lights are in the configuration for normal ops:  all front panel lights are blue/solid and the network light on the back is blinking (yellow) regularly as is the hub-connection indicator.

However, the device never appears on the network.  I can neither ping nor ssh into the nas.  I've switched out networking cables, and also have moved the device to several different hubs but the device remains autistic.  I fear this last move may have finally killed off his venerable device.  (All my other nas devices are working on the same hubs I've tried to (re)connect the RN102 on...)

So, worst case scenario afaik is that the nic went south.  My drives are config'd as RAID1 (mirror) so I'm not really worried about content retention except:

• if I pull these drives to install in a new nas, is there anything netgear-proprietary that would prevent them from being successfully accessed and read on, say, a WD NAS?  Do I have to stay with a netgear nas b/c of some proprietary weirdness?
• Can I attach the nas directly to a laptop to see if the device remains autistic?  If so, how?

That's about all I can think of... I think this nas has died and gone to nas heaven.  My concern now is recovering the data from one, or both, drives.

Thanks!

--mike