Hi !

We are having trouble adding a i350-T4 card to the Cisco UCS c250 M3 with onboard i350 LOM

It is caught in an infinite loop unless we disable onboard LOM - other posts on the Internet raises a flag when it comes to combining onboard LOM with PCI-e cards.

All firmware is updated and all option ROMs are disabled for all Cards, PXE disabled with bootutil 19.0

We did test the following

Moved Intel NIC from PCI-e slot 5 to PCI-e slot2

Disabled all option ROM in BIOS (booting ESX from SD CARD)

Onboard LOM disabled in BIOS = boot / external NICs detected

Onboard LOM enabled in BIOS + PCI-e i350-T4 = no boot - system hangs

Onboard LOM enabled in BIOS = boot / internal NICs detected

Card is on Cisco whitelist page 225 http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/interoperability/matrix/r_hcl_C_rel1-53d.pdf

But since its not Cisco branded our local Cisco REP wont raise a TAC :-(

I am looking to deploy a wake on lan solution to one of the sites that I manage.  I have found a VBscript that takes care of most adapters, but not Intel 82579lm adapters.

I followed some very helpful information from this thread: https://communities.intel.com/thread/19132 and changed the commands to reflect wake on magic packet.  Unfortunately I keep getting a failure message.  The thread that I was using for reference was for a different model Intel NIC, but I hopped that it would work.

Does anyone have any guidance in enabling wake on magic packet via command line and prosetcl.exe for Intel 82579lm adapters?

Any help would be much appreciated.

Hello

I have a Lenovo W520 with 82579LM installed with the latest driver (IntelPro 19, driver version 12.10.28.0).

I am trying to connect it with a 10gBaseT copper port on a router and it won't come up.

The link is flapping constantly and changing between enabled/uplugged.

I realize this is a 1gig NIC but should it auto-negotiate and come up with 1gig (it is set to autoneg on both sides) ?. It has no issue connected to a 1gig copper port.

However I have used other Intel 1gig NICs (82578DM and 82576LM) and they don't have any issue connecting to this 10gig copper port.

Is there anything that I can dump to check out why ?

Note: the i350 1gic seems to have the same behavior but it's intermittent..

Thanks in advance,

KJ

Hi,

I recently updated a 2012 HyperVisor Server from GB iSCSI NIC to a X540-T2 NIC for use with iSCSI.

The System has onboard I350 Nics which I use for the LAN.

Initially I just allowed windows to install best driver (And I presume use the already installed v18 Proset)  Things were fine for around 18 hours.

Then I got an event log from IXBGT event ID 56 stating that "Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X540-T2 The network driver has been stopped because the network adapter has been removed." - This brought down all the VM's and although device manager was seeing the NIC's and the NIC's had lights on, they were marked as disabled and could not be re enabled.

After a restart all was fine and then it happened again, around 18 hours later.

I updated the BIOS on the server and attempted to install the latest V19 driver package (changing virtual switch to internal beforehand)

Although the install stated it went ok, immediately it was noticed that performance was poor, and now I cannot see any advanced options within the NIC's - the pane states: "Your Device / OS combination does not support any VLAN advanced settings."  (It's not on any VLANs)

The driver on the NIC now shows 05/12/2013 version 3.8.35.0

I will have another out of hours maintenance window soon, what's going on and what should I do ?

Thanks for you advice!

zach

Hi,

I have a gateway which runs on Windows Embedded Standard 7 which has Intel NIC Card 1000 MT/PRO .

I have connected this gateway and a switch in a network where switch has configured speed/duplex as 1000Mbps/Full.

When I set the Speed/Duplex on my gateway's NIC to Auto-Negotiate or 1000Mbps/Full, it negotiating/advertising the speed and duplex properly.

But when Speed/Duplex sets to 100Mbps/Full on gateway's NIC, in the Switch it shows that my gateway is advertising the Speed/Duplex as 100Mbps/Half Duplex.

I am checking these configured values through the registry entryComputer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Class\{4D36E972-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}\00NN\*SpeedDuplex. It shows the configured value.

The doubt have here is that i have checked the enum values for this *SpeedDuplex entry, it shows in the following way:

0 - Autonegotiation

1- 10Mbps HalfDuplex

2 - 10Mbps FullDuplex

3 - 100Mbps HalfDuplex

4 - 100Mbps FullDuplex

6 - 1000Mbps

Why don't have here the value 5?

I have checked this registry in other Windows Operating systems, it shows correctly. Only in this Windows Embedded Standard 7 OS it shows this way. Will it create any issue? While performing the Speed/Duplex advertisement/Negotiation will it use these enum values? If so how can I resolve this issue?.

Thanks,

Challask

Hi all,

Bought a AsRock motherboard (ASRock B85M Pro4) with Intel Ethernet, downloaded the driver from AsRock website then downloaded another one from Intel Website, still cannot install the driver on my Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64). What I'm doing wrong or what driver should I install?

Need to solve this issue asap.

Thank you.

I recently updated to Windows 8.1 and the original Windows 8 drivers for my Gigabit CT NIC have been replaced with the default Windows 8.1 drivers which are terrible and have done nothing but annoy me (stuttering audio in streams, high CPU usage in downloading etc). I notice updates for Windows 8 are still regularly provided but there's absolutely nothing for Windows 8.1. Is possible to reinstall the Windows 8 drivers by such methods as making changes to the .inf file of the accompanying driver?

Thanks in advance!

Hallo Leute,

ich verstehe die Treiberpolitik nicht.

In meinem Rechner werkeln zwei Intel Pro/1000 Dual PT PCIe Karte. Treiber für Win 8 wurden zur Verfügung gestellt. Das war auch der Grund, dass ich mich für die Karten entschieden habe.

Beim kleinen Update auf 8.1 wird die Karte plötzlich nicht mehr supportet....

Einen Versionssprung von 7.x auf 8.x oder von 8.x auf 9.x kann ich verstehen, aber innerhalb von Win 8.x ist schon bitter. Die Karten kann ich derzeit nur gegen unterstützte Karten austauschen. Bei einem Markenanbieter und Marktführer wie Intel habe ich das einfach nicht erwartet und bin enttäuscht.

Gibt es eventuell die Möglichkeit einer Petition für die Treiberunterstützung ? Bei meinen HP Micro Servern wurde auch ein Biosupdate für Win8.1 nachgeschoben. Wieso kann das HP und Intel nicht ?

Gruß Michael

I am imaging using SCCM 2012 R2.  It installs the driver correctly but I would like to remove the check from "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power".  What is the best way to do this?  Can I run a command line or a script to change that setting?

I need to change it for both Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 in case I have to do it differently.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Rick

Hi,

I got this logged in my kern.log:

warning kernel: swapper: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x20
...
warning kernel: Call Trace:
warning kernel: [<ffffffff810f9bdc>] ? fallback_alloc+0x16e/0x20b
warning kernel: <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810f9d2a>] ? ____cache_alloc_node+0xb1/0xf8
warning kernel: [<ffffffff810ca6c8>] ? __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x6f4/0x780
warning kernel: [<ffffffff810f9716>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xdd/0x178
warning kernel: [<ffffffff812ad4c3>] ? __alloc_skb+0x59/0x159
warning kernel: [<ffffffff810f94d8>] ? kmem_getpages+0x52/0x11a
warning kernel: [<ffffffff810f9bdc>] ? fallback_alloc+0x16e/0x20b
warning kernel: [<ffffffffa022677a>] ? ixgbevf_alloc_rx_buffers+0x5e/0x18e [ixgbevf]
warning kernel: [<ffffffff810f9d2a>] ? ____cache_alloc_node+0xb1/0xf8
warning kernel: [<ffffffffa0228dda>] ? ixgbevf_poll+0x4e8/0x601 [ixgbevf]
warning kernel: [<ffffffff810f9716>] ? kmem_cache_alloc_node+0xdd/0x178
warning kernel: [<ffffffff812b7dd7>] ? net_rx_action+0xd1/0x29a
warning kernel: [<ffffffff812ad4c3>] ? __alloc_skb+0x59/0x159
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8105d694>] ? lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4c
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8105686c>] ? __do_softirq+0xd9/0x1a6
warning kernel: [<ffffffffa022677a>] ? ixgbevf_alloc_rx_buffers+0x5e/0x18e [ixgbevf]
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8100ad6c>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
warning kernel: [<ffffffffa0228d7f>] ? ixgbevf_poll+0x48d/0x601 [ixgbevf]
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8100c635>] ? do_softirq+0x5f/0xbe
warning kernel: [<ffffffff812b7dd7>] ? net_rx_action+0xd1/0x29a
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8105686c>] ? __do_softirq+0xd9/0x1a6
warning kernel: [<ffffffff81056688>] ? irq_exit+0x36/0x78
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8100ad6c>] ? call_softirq+0x1c/0x30
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8100c635>] ? do_softirq+0x5f/0xbe
warning kernel: [<ffffffff81056688>] ? irq_exit+0x36/0x78
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8100bc83>] ? do_IRQ+0xa0/0xb6
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8100bc83>] ? do_IRQ+0xa0/0xb6
warning kernel: [<ffffffff8100a593>] ? ret_from_intr+0x0/0x11
...

After a while, the system crashed for out-of-memory (kernel panics). It only happened on some servers (low end Intel Xeon) but not on the others. So I got 3 questions for you guys:

- Is this exactly the VF known issue mentioned in the subject?

- If yes, what will trigger it?

- Why the memory was used up when this happened?

Windows 7 64-bit, Intel Gigabit CT with ProSet 19.1. When VLAN is added to this card "Intel ANS Virtual Adapter" is added to system, but then error is displayed "One or more vlan(s) could not be created. Please check the adapters status and try again".

At the same time an appcrash is logged to eventlog:

----

Faulting application name: NCS2Prov.exe, version: 18.8.134.0, time stamp: 0x5285684c

Faulting module name: NcsColib.dll, version: 18.8.134.0, time stamp: 0x5285679b

Exception code: 0xc0000005

Fault offset: 0x00000000000332bb

Faulting process id: 0x12ac

Faulting application start time: 0x01cf598ed0546b43

Faulting application path: C:\Program Files\Intel\NCS2\WMIProv\NCS2Prov.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\system32\NcsColib.dll

Report Id: 15bd7eae-c582-11e3-bb42-005056c00008

----

I tried adding vlan with prosetcl but that fails also.

Those "ghost" virtual adapters can not be uninstalled from Network Connections or from Device Manager. Only way to remove them is manually from registry... more info here Network Connectivity &mdash; Unable to uninstall Intel� Network Connections, Intel� PROSet, or teams

I removed drivers and reinstalled them, same thing.

I tried the card in another machine, with same ProSet 19.1 and I had no problems creating VLANs.

All drivers should be the latest. I believe that is an access violation exception, but what was going on... verbose logs anywhere ?

I'm not sure if this is a problem with WinGate, my Intel ethernet devices the motherboard or Windows but I'll post it here anyway.

Every now and then (maybe twice a week) all LAN clients lose connectivity and the usual "limited connectivity" exclamation mark is displayed over the network icon in the notification area. The server can still connect to internet, and everything seems peachy with ipconfig.

If I reboot the Wingate server, everything is fine again. The wonky thing is if I try to disable and re-enable the local network adapter, it won't turn grey. If I try again a few times, it does turn grey, but then won't turn on again. If I now try to reboot the Wingate server it will be stuck at "Restarting ..." and I need to hit the reset button.

Specs and images:

WinGate 8.1.0 Build 4655

Pretty standard but with Proxy server removed, no firewall, no bandwidth control.

Services installed: DHCP, DNS, Remote control, SMTP delivery and schedulers

Performance counters installed but disabled/stopped.

DHCP mode: Fully automatic

ips 192.168.3.2 to 192.168.3.5 reserved for various lan clients

Windows 8.1 update 1 x64 Pro

DirectX 11.0

Intel Core i5-4570S

Asus H87I-Plus BIOS 0905

8GB RAM

Logitech HID-compliant G3/MX518 Optical Mouse

Intel Ethernet Connection I217-V (84.xxx.xxx.xxx) driver e1i63x64.sys 12.6.47.0

Intel Gigabit CT Desktop Adapter (192.168.3.1) driver e1q63x64.sys 12.7.27.0

Clients OS: Windows 8.1 update 1 x64 Pro

Forum thread at WinGate:

WinGate Forums &bull; View topic - LAN clients connection broken, ethernet device wonky

My DH87MC board with I217v Gigabit Ethernet Controller used a wire connection until I recently installed a Centrino-N 6205 desktop wireless adapter and started using wireless.

I just downloaded Intel Network Connections 19.1  to update the wired LAN . The update failed to run because "Cannot install drivers. No Intel adapters are present in this computer." I did not knowingly uninstall anything associated with the adapters.

Could the installation of the wireless connection caused this issue? I would appreciate any info on how to recover the adapters. Regards. Peter

Hello

I have a Lenovo W520 with 82579LM installed with the latest driver (IntelPro 19, driver version 12.10.28.0).

I am trying to connect it with a 10gBaseT copper port on a router and it won't come up.

The link is flapping constantly and changing between enabled/uplugged.

I realize this is a 1gig NIC but should it auto-negotiate and come up with 1gig (it is set to autoneg on both sides) ?. It has no issue connected to a 1gig copper port.

However I have used other Intel 1gig NICs (82578DM and 82576LM) and they don't have any issue connecting to this 10gig copper port.

Is there anything that I can dump to check out why ?

Note: the i350 1gic seems to have the same behavior but it's intermittent..

Thanks in advance,

KJ

I shall make the Intel ethernet adapter 82566DM mounted on the mainboard (FOXCONN LS-36) of a DELL desktop PC (Type DCSM) transmit test patterns for Ethernet (100BASE-TX) Conformance Tests.

In detail I shall make it permanently transmit

1th     a scrambled IDLE stream (4B/5B=11111) as a basic signal for Mask Test

          (ANSI X3.263-1995 (R2000) Annex J)

2nd     a scrambled HALT line state for Jitter Test

          (IEEE 803.2-2000, 25.4.5 & ANSI X3.263-1995 (R2000) 9.1.9)

3rd      a 01010101 NRZ bit sequence for Duty Cycle Distortion

          (ANSI X3.263-1995 (R2000) 9.1.8)

Who can help me or/and tell me how to manage that?

I have got a requirement where a 24 port switch should have 4 SFPs and all 4 should be used at a time. I also search the internet and find both Cisco Catalyst WS-C2960S-24TS-L and WS-C2960S-24TS-S seem to be avalible.I don't know the difference between them ? Which one should i buy ?

Hi guys,

I do have a motherboard based on the Intel C206 chipset which us used with an Intel Xeon E3-1260L processor. The board does have two Gb Intel NICs, one being an Intel 82574L (07:00.0) and the other being an Intel 82579LM (00:19.0); both numbers in paranthesis from lspic on linux - full details from lspci as follows (the two NICs are in bold and marked by ==>):

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 Processor Family DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:01.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200/2nd Generation Core Processor Family PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
==> 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev b5)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev b5)
00:1c.6 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 7 (rev b5)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation C206 Chipset Family LPC Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 05)
01:00.0 Serial Attached SCSI controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic SAS2008 PCI-Express Fusion-MPT SAS-2 [Falcon] (rev 02)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 01)
03:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd. Device 0100 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR93xx Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
05:00.0 PCI bridge: PLX Technology, Inc. PEX8112 x1 Lane PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev aa)
06:00.0 Communication controller: OpenVox Communication Co. Ltd. Device 0810 (rev 14)
==> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82574L Gigabit Network Connection
08:00.0 USB controller: NEC Corporation uPD720200 USB 3.0 Host Controller (rev 03)
09:00.0 PCI bridge: Pericom Semiconductor PI7C8148A/PI7C8148B PCI-to-PCI Bridge
0a:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
0a:09.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
0a:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
0a:0b.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR922X Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

.

Already at the beginning there have been issues with one of the onboard NICs: Although according to the board's MAC-address sticker its MAC address should have been 00:18:7d:1d:72:74 it actually identified with 88:88:88:88:87:88 to my DHCP server. The board manufacturer then sent me a firmware update tool and advised me to update the MAC adress - which I did.

Subsequentyl I faced substantial issues trying to bond the two NICs together which resulted in packet loss and very instable connections (e.g. long delays in ssh before a response came). As I was not sure whether I did something wrong, I decided to change plan und only use one NIC - according to lspci it was the 82579LM on address 00:19.0 - for my dom0 (the system will be used under XEN) and pass the second one through to a virtual HVM domu machine. After the XEN system was up and configured with a number of PV domUs I started to install the HVM domu and passed through the second.

Then the fun started again: Pinging the dom0 from the domu resulted in duplicate packets. There were NO duplicate packets when pinged from a Win7 machine so my first idea was that there's something wrong with the PCI-passthrough or linux. After thorough investigation it however turned out that the dom0 actually really sent two ICMP echo replies in reply to one ICMP echo request from the domU. Thise problems did not surface in Win7 because duplicates are obviously silently ignored by MS. All this was confirmed after lengthy inverstigations by mirroring a port on the switch and capture the traffic on that port on a third linux machine by tcpdump.

Next step was to go back to standard linux without XEN, drop the bridge and have a plain linux up and running:

If I only used the 82579LM I also saw DUP replies to ping from the other linux machine. After switching over to the 82574L the DUPs were gone - although and interestingly enough the arp information suggested that instead of the MAC address displayed in ifconfig (00:18:7d:1d:71:de), the card was cached as 00:18:7d:1d:71:74. Also the instability and the delays (both during session initiation and when it is on) for ssh sessions re-appeared - the connection was completrly lost when the session was left idle for some time.

To me this looks as if something is considerably broken - my idea would be that there's something wrong with the firmware. Albeit that's where all the trouble has started.

If somebody from Intel is able to provide me with a current firmware version together with a recent flash-tool I'd try to go dwon that route and see whether that changes anything. That is unless someone has a better idea or can pinpoint what to try next.

Thanks in advance and best regards

KK

P.S. I attach the current firmware version for both NICs; they have been extracted from DOS with EEUPDATE.EXE (date 08.11-2010 03:46, size 432.523 byte)

Hi,

I have a Dell Optiplex 9020 desktop that has a built in i217-LM NIC. I needed a second NIC so I added a Gigabit CT desktop PCIE NIC. After installing the Proset drivers the i217-LM NIC stopped working and the CT Nic does not work either. Both show up in the Network control panel but with a state of disconnected. The LED"s show link and network activity.

Any ideas of what happened and how to fix it?

Thanks.

Hi!

I have a server with built-in network card based on i354 Quad GbE Controller. The documentation for igb driver declared support 2.5 Gbps operating speed (The igb driver supports 2.5Gbps operating speed on 2500BASE-KX only for I354-based network connections).

How can I get that speed? Do I need to run this driver with special parameters or use a special cable?

I need to execute 100BASE-TX conformance tests on "active contact rings". To do that I have got 2 DELL Desktop PCs OPTIPLEX 755  (Type DCSM) that communicate with each other frame by frame (using LabVIEW programs) via their standard ethernet connections. On their mainboards (FOXCONN LS-36) an ethernet adapter 82566DM an the chipset ICH9 is mounted. In oder to execute 100BASE-TX conformance tests I need to put the 82566DM chips into one of their test modes. With the help of the chipset it then should transmit no ethernet frames but continuously one of the required test patterns (scrambled IDLEs, scrambled Halt line state & 01010101 NRZ bit sequence for DCD test). Who can help me to make the 82566DM transmit the test patterns necessary to execute 100BASE-TX conformance tests?