Hi.

When deploying to the new 5th Gen Lenovo X1 Carbon, I keep getting an error stating that the network driver isn't installed - please see below:

pci ven_8086&dev_15D8&SUBSYS_224F17AA&REV_21

VEN_8086 = Intel

DEV_15D8 = UNKNOWN

I got the drivers here ( closest thing i could find ).

Download Intel Ethernet Gigabit Adapter Driver 12.15.24.1 for Windows 10 64 bit

Before the drivers weren't installed on the WIM file, so i used DISM to inject the drivers into the WIM file and managed to successfully boot from network

I installed the drivers and managed to the deployment screen to setup the deployment ready. Once the deployment is going and the windows 10 image has applied, before any of the applications can install i get the same error saying the network drivers hasn't been installed and you can see from the device manager that no network drivers have been installed, even Wi-Fi. Once on the machine, if i install the drivers from the link above, the Ethernet works fine.

Please can you let me know the correct drivers to use for the deployment of this network drivers.

Platform is a Dell E6520 Latitude

NIC is the Intel 82579LM GigE

Windows 7 Enterprise x64, fully patched and up to date

Drivers are the latest available from the Intel site.

After updating to the latest version of the Intel Network Connections (INC) v20.7, 201.0 and 21.1 there is a problem when

the Configure button in the NIC properties is selected. Among other things this launches the ncs2prov.exe with this command line.

     "C:\Program Files\Intel\NCS2\WMIProv\NCS2Prov.exe" -Embedding

This program spends the next several minutes issuing millions of I/O calls to enumerate items in the registry and then scan what appears to be most of the C: drive looking for every *.INF it can find among other things...

Tracing this with ProcMon from the MS System Internals tools counts >3.5 million events just from launching the program.  If the machine did not have an SSD, this process would have likely taken a VERY long time in the range of tens of minutes at least I would think.  As it is, it takes a minute or two where the machine appears to be not responding to the Configure request at first launch.

I have tried all three of the latest versions as describe, but they all have the same issue.  Once the program is loaded finally, selecting a different tab starts the same behavior over again and a single tab can take minutes to display and update.  A tab change generates about 2.1 million events each time...

Does anyone know how to stop this behavior?  Why is it scanning the entire C: drive looking for *.INF files?  It is not actually reading their contents most of the time that I can see, it just rescans the C: looking for them....  I know what the .INF and .CAT files are for and generally understand at least the basics of installing drivers and their support files.

It does not appear that it actually has anything to do with the hardware platform, but is a problem with the INC software running on Windows 7 x64.

Any thoughts as to how to stop this would be appreciated.  We can switch back to even older versions, if we knew where the problems were introduced.  Apparently this has existed for a year or maybe more based on the version we have tested thus far.  The drivers overall work well and are much better that the official Dell drivers which do not allow most of the hardware features of the NIC driver to be exposed.  (RSS, R/W buffers, TCP checksum off-loads, disable EEE, etc...)  They are performing at ~60% of the network wire speed instead of about 35% with the OEM drivers.

Thank you,

-CoreyMac

Hello

I have 10 host Dell R730xd with Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA4 and we have installed VMware 6.0u2 hosts and vSAN. The cards at first seem to work well and preform well however we now have an issue where the links on all of our hots flap and performance is very poor.The logs show

TX driver issue detected, PF reset issued. and drop packages.

I search information and show issues with drivers Intel X710 and Vmware 6.0u2 and with Beta 1.6.6?

Thanks 

Hi,

I have a bunch (actually around 50 boards) of Intel X710-DA2 adapters, and similar number of servers running ESX 6.0. The problem is: as soon as the server starts exchanging the traffic using X710, it reboots. Why I'm writing here instead of the VMWare support: because when the adapter stays idle (we use onboard copper gigabit i350 adapters to mitigate the issue), the server is rock stable. When using the Mellanox ConnextX-3 EN boards (recently we aquired a couple for testing purposes) the server doesn't crash either. So I'm quite sure either it's the board or it's driver.

As about the Intel drivers for ESX: the problem is persistent across all available versions of the driver from 1.2.48 to 2.0.6 (we also tried the 1.4.28 in the middle). The NVM firmware version also doesn't seem to solve this - today we performed the tests on the 5.05 firmware, with 2.0.6 drivers - and  the uptime was just a couple of minutes before server rebooted. I've also tried to disable TSO and LRO, but this didn't change the result.

I would appreciate greatly if someone will help me to mitigate this issue, because right now the only possible solution for us is switching to the Mellanox boards, which is quite expensive, as the server number is way big.

Thanks.

Our deployment system has been installing Intel network drivers for years using this approach:
Unzip "PROWinxXX ver XX.exe" and then running the appropriate DXSetup.exe (or setupBD for older versions) with the /qr argument.

This is in a way also working for 22.0.1... but after installation the "We invite you to join the Intel Product Improvement Program" popup appears, and deployment halts.
How do I suppress this popup during silent install?

Thanks,

When connecting PC and PC directly

In general, a cross cable is used.

I saw a PC to PC connection via a direct cable.

We confirmed that the ping test works normally.

There seems to be a separate LAN card to support this ...

Is there a way to check in the Network attribute?

Or is there a supported Chipset series?

IAN I218 V connection in Windows 10, 64bit, i-5, 4590 processor. is slow.  Do I upgrade to I219 -V?, ASUS Z-97E motherboard?

Hello there,

My Intel 218-v adapter has not been able to reach an internet speed higher than 100mbp/s.

My ISP provides a speed of 500 mbp/s.

When I put the 'Speed and Duplex' setting on 1GB it disconnects completely and with 'Auto Negotiation' it just gives a mere 100mbp/s and sometimes even switches to 10mbp/s.

I've tried different cables, but that did not turn out to be the problem. 
Installing the latest drivers didn't seem to help either.

Perhaps someone here knows a solution?

Kind regards,

Alex

Hello,

I'm working on the Intel 82579LM linked to a QM77 PCH (7/C210 Series Chipset).

When activating the Tx functionalities, using the TCLT register ( p193 of Intel® 82579 GbE PHY: Datasheet, Vol. 2.1 )

I noticed that if the "Reserved" "Read only" bit 28 was not specifically set to value '0b1', the Tx functionalities do not work.

Although I agree it is not "best-practice" to set "Reserved" bits, is this behavior normal ?

Many thanks !

Hello,

after the update to Windows 10 (x64, Build 10240) the creation of a teaming group (static or IEEE802.3ad) with a I211+I217-V NIC fails.

Drivers have been upgraded to the latest version available and multiple reinstallations with reboots din't help either. Whenever the group creation wizzard is used and a groupname (several tried), the adapters and LACP have been selected, a Windows pop-up appears to tell me group creation has failed.

However the Windows Device Manager shows a newly created "Intel Advanced Network Services Virtual Adapter", so some kind of configuration seems to get done.

Using Windows 7 SP1 x64 the exact same setup worked flawlessly for months, so Win10/the driver are the likely culprit.

Is anyone experiencing similar problems and/or is this a known bug? Feedback on this issue is greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Kind regards,

Famaku

I am using 3.3.2 ixgbevf in guest and 5.0.4 ixgbe on host. I noticed that even though there are two RX queues for each VF, but pretty much all the packets go to the first RX queue. The RSS related features are also not supported. How to turn on the RSS support on ixgbevf? If it does not support RSS, what's the point having multiple queues in ixgbevf?

root@ubuntu14:~# ethtool -n eth1

2 RX rings available

rxclass: Cannot get RX class rule count: Operation not supported

RX classification rule retrieval failed

root@ubuntu14:~# ethtool -x eth1

Cannot get RX flow hash indirection table: Operation not permitted

root@ubuntu14:~# ethtool -g eth1

Ring parameters for eth1:

Pre-set maximums:

RX: 4096

RX Mini: 0

RX Jumbo: 0

TX: 4096

Current hardware settings:

RX: 512

RX Mini: 0

RX Jumbo: 0

TX: 1024

root@ubuntu14:~# ethtool -k eth1

Features for eth1:

rx-checksumming: on

tx-checksumming: on

  tx-checksum-ipv4: on

  tx-checksum-ip-generic: off [fixed]

  tx-checksum-ipv6: on

  tx-checksum-fcoe-crc: off [fixed]

  tx-checksum-sctp: off [fixed]

scatter-gather: on

  tx-scatter-gather: on

  tx-scatter-gather-fraglist: off [fixed]

tcp-segmentation-offload: on

  tx-tcp-segmentation: on

  tx-tcp-ecn-segmentation: off [fixed]

  tx-tcp6-segmentation: on

udp-fragmentation-offload: off [fixed]

generic-segmentation-offload: on

generic-receive-offload: on

large-receive-offload: off [fixed]

rx-vlan-offload: on

tx-vlan-offload: on

ntuple-filters: off [fixed]

receive-hashing: off [fixed]

highdma: on [fixed]

rx-vlan-filter: on

vlan-challenged: off [fixed]

tx-lockless: off [fixed]

netns-local: off [fixed]

tx-gso-robust: off [fixed]

tx-fcoe-segmentation: off [fixed]

tx-gre-segmentation: off [fixed]

tx-ipip-segmentation: off [fixed]

tx-sit-segmentation: off [fixed]

tx-udp_tnl-segmentation: off [fixed]

fcoe-mtu: off [fixed]

tx-nocache-copy: off

loopback: off [fixed]

rx-fcs: off [fixed]

rx-all: off [fixed]

tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert: off [fixed]

rx-vlan-stag-hw-parse: off [fixed]

rx-vlan-stag-filter: off [fixed]

l2-fwd-offload: off [fixed]

busy-poll: on [fixed]

Hello,

I am using the newest driver for the Intel I219-LM network adapter in Windows 7. I need to change the size of the receive and
transmit buffers to: 

Receive buffers : 512

Transmit buffers: 128

I can’t seem to find the option to change the parameters !  

For the Intel 82579LM the option is easily available under the “advanced tab” for “network connection properties”.

Any suggestions?

Thanks 

Regards

Jonas

I am looking to enable 25G line speed on XL710

I am getting following support only

sudo ./qcu64e /NIC 1 /INFO
Intel(R) QSFP+ Configuration Utility

QCU version: v2.27.10.01
Copyright(C) 2016 by Intel Corporation.
Software released under Intel Proprietary License.

Adapter supports QSFP+ Configuration modification.
Current Configuration: 2x40

Supported Configurations:
1x40
2x40
4x10
2x2x10A (Top 2 lanes on Module0; Bottom 2 lanes on Module 1)
2x2x10B

# sudo ./qcu64e
Intel(R) QSFP+ Configuration Utility

QCU version: v2.27.10.01
Copyright(C) 2016 by Intel Corporation.
Software released under Intel Proprietary License.

NIC Seg:Bus Ven-Dev   Mode    Adapter Name
=== ======= ========= ======= ==================================================
1) 000:011 8086-1583 2x40    Cisco(R) Ethernet Converged NIC XL710-QDA2
2) 000:012 8086-1583 2x40    Cisco(R) Ethernet Converged NIC XL710-QDA2
3) 000:027 8086-1583 2x40    Cisco(R) Ethernet Converged NIC XL710-QDA2

Warning: No adapter selected.

Hello, I've got some abnormal event in XL710 like as below.

by upper msg, my XL710 NIC was reset, and then link down/up occured.

I want to know, what does means "Malicious Driver Detection in XL710",

And, What is trigging condition that situation?

Thank you

Hello FM10k experts,

I need to make the FM10420 card work with Linux 4.4 and everything I tried failed.

The card embeds a switch that apparently needs its own driver, which I found nowhere.

According to DPDK website 5. FM10K Poll Mode Driver — Data Plane Development Kit 2.2.0 documentation "For the switch component another switch driver has to be loaded prior to to the FM10000 PMD driver. The switch driver can be acquired for Intel support or from the Match Interface project."

I'm pretty sure I'm close with these:

- the Focalpoint library seems to provide the API to configure the internal switch (inside FM10420): GitHub - andriymoroz/IES: Intel Ethernet Switch (IES) software

- the matchd daemon seems to drive the internal switch via the above library: GitHub - monicashete/match: Match is a runtime interface for configuring and populating match-action tables in an underl…

- the FM10K driver to be used seems to be the one from sourceforge, not the one in Linux kernel tree: https://netix.dl.sourceforge.net/project/e1000/fm10k%20stable/0.21.7/fm10k-0.21.7.tar.gz

However, I'm unable to get the link up on the 2 external ports of the card.

Matchd spits these errors:

i2c error=230 (sw=0 devAddr 50)

ERROR:matchd:fmPlatformPortInitialize:1691:Error setting port 1 into Ethernet mode AN-73!

It is possible the transceiver / cable are not accepted - I tried Mellanox and Finisar.

I'd be grateful if someone can shed some light how to debug and what should be the right way to set up this card.

Thanks in advance,

Robert

Hello

I have an Intel server with Ubuntu 16.04.2

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)

02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)

I am unable to set mtu to a value higher than 1500, the error I get is:

SIOCSIFMTU: Invalid argument

I have downloaded and installed driver 4.6.4 and 5.0.4 and both DO NOT WORK

I have kernel

4.8.0-49-generic #52~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 20 10:55:59 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I have tried issuing the following commands:

ethtool -K eno4 rx-vlan-filter off

ethtool -K eno3 rxvlan off

ethtool -K eno3 txvlan off

But still cannot set the mtu to a different value.

Can anybody help?

Thanks

We have experienced three occurrences on two servers of this error "tx_timeout" / "hung_queue", and packets stopped flowing for some number of seconds (but then recovered):

Apr 10 02:04:14 node39 kernel: WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:297 dev_watchdog+0x276/0x280()
Apr 10 02:04:14 node39 kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: p2p1 (i40e): transmit queue 8 timed out
...
Apr 10 02:04:14 node39 kernel: CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: G OE ------------ 3.10.0-514.6.1.el7.x86_64 #1
Apr 10 02:04:14 node39 kernel: Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R620/01W23F, BIOS 2.1.3 11/20/2013
...
Apr 10 02:04:14 node39 kernel: i40e 0000:42:00.0 p2p1: tx_timeout: VSI_seid: 390, Q 8, NTC: 0x113, HWB: 0x116, NTU: 0x116, TAIL: 0x116, INT: 0x1
Apr 10 02:04:14 node39 kernel: i40e 0000:42:00.0 p2p1: tx_timeout recovery level 1, hung_queue 8
Apr 10 02:04:14 node39 kernel: i40e 0000:42:00.0 p2p1: adding 3c:fd:fe:9f:b7:48 vid=0

This is within first 3 weeks of usage of Intel X710 duo adapters running firmware 4.53 (with supported Intel SFP+) recently installed in a cluster of two-year-old Dell R620s, running CentOS 7.3:

node39:/# lspci -vv | grep -A 1 10GbE
pcilib: sysfs_read_vpd: read failed: Input/output error
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-2
--
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710
--
42:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-2
--
42:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710
node39:/usr/local/bin# ethtool -i p2p1
driver: i40e
version: 1.5.10-k
firmware-version: 4.53 0x8000206e 0.0.0
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:42:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes

We have used X710s without issue in a few other servers, but in those cases they are HP OEM, and running firmware 4.60:

node93:/# lspci -vv |grep -A 1 10GbE
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 562FLR-SFP+ Adapter
--
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 10Gb 562SFP+ Adapter
--
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 562SFP+ Adapter
--
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ (rev 01)        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ethernet 10Gb 562SFP+ Adapter
node93:/# ethtool -i ens2f0
driver: i40e
version: 1.5.10-k
firmware-version: 4.60 0x80001f47 1.3072.0
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:05:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes

I have downloaded nvmupdate64e and updated a spare Dell to firmware 5.05, so if this is the correct solution I have confirmed the procedure. However threads such as this one Intel X710 vs VMWare ESX: crash and reboot  give me pause-- crash and reboot would certainly be worse than a 10-20 second transmit hang.

My questions are:

1. Has anyone else experienced these tx_timeout / hung_queue issues?
2. Is it a known issue? If so, is it an issue with firmware, with i40e driver, or something else such as TSO/GSO (which are currently ON but I could turn them off).
3. If it is an issue with firmware, has it been corrected between versions 4.53 and 4.60, and is it recommended to flash production machines to 5.05, or to some other version. I could not find a detailed Change List.
4. Is there a way (such as generating high data rates using iperf) to make the sporadic issues occur reproducibly, so that I can demonstrate whether any attempted solution has been successful.

Thanks in advance!

Hi all,

I would like to change the number of queues per interface (I use a split cable with a 4x10 configuration) with my XL710QDA1 and its i40e driver.

I couldn't find the options for modprobe I used to set with my ixgbe interfaces. Any Idea ?

Thanks,

Julien.

Hi

I'm trying to install a network adapter Intel PRO 1000 PT on my motherboard DH87RL.

I put it on a PCI-E x16, led is blinking when I plug a wire, system is starting but the device doesn't show in BIOS (v0330).

Is there a known incompatibility within this device and my mother board ?

Thank you.

When interfacing a I219LM to a 10/100 PHY, is it acceptable to leave the unused pairs as no connects, or is some manner of termination (Bob Smith?) required?