Hi All,

Downloaded NVMUpdate for Intel XL710 adapters for Linux. Trying to run it with log. There is a messages in a log:

Intel(R) Ethernet NVM Update Tool

NVMUpdate version 1.25.20.03

Copyright (C) 2013 - 2015 Intel Corporation.

./nvmupdate64e -l log.txt

Warning: Unsupported base driver version 1.2.48 (min required 1.3.19)

Warning: Not supported version of base driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-4

Warning: Unsupported base driver version 1.2.48 (min required 1.3.19)

Warning: Not supported version of base driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710

Warning: Unsupported base driver version 1.2.48 (min required 1.3.19)

Warning: Not supported version of base driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710

Warning: Unsupported base driver version 1.2.48 (min required 1.3.19)

Warning: Not supported version of base driver for Intel(R) Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710

Config file read.

Inventory

But at first I upgraded i40e drivers to 1.2.48. I don't see a driver more fresh than 1.2.48 on download.intel.com .

What should I do?

I'm working on virtual router evaluation with SR-IOV now. My virtual router cannot speak and has proper OSPF relation with external box. Does anyone know how to look into the synopsis deeper? Here are my setup.

1. CSR1K, Cisco virtual router which is running over a server box speaks with an external box

2. SR-IOV is enabled on the server

3. the external box speaks with CSR1K, that means OSPF neighbor has been established

4. CSR1K cannot speak with the external box, it looks that CSR1K cannot recieve any MC/BC packet

5. ethtool shows ixgbe is running with 4.0.1-k-rh7.1, ixgbevf is running with 2.12.1-k

Any input would help me out.

Thanks in advance,

Yuichiro

L.S.

In my latest laptop (HP 650G1, feb-2015) running windows 8.1-64, my lan card is an Intel I217-V.

After installing the proset software, I should be able to configure VLAN's. I did this on my previous laptop once in a while to check VLAN configurations. Great function.

On this latest laptop, trying to configure VLAN's almost alway's results in a BSOD with the message "BAD POOL CALLER"

Since then I did the following:

- update drivers

- full uninstall / reboot / install of intel Proset

- manual cleanup of the registry, (There appear to get one or more ians miniport devices that get stuck in my device manager). Specially HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlset\Enum\ROOT\IANSMINIPORT

(Tricky to clean up. Use psexec -i -s regedt32.exe to get permission, then regdelnull to clean up data, then able to remove)

But even after full clean-up after uninstall / reboot / install / reboot does not appear to solve the issue.

Any help apreciated.

Thomas Roes

My PC is installed with Intel(R) 82567LM-3 Gigabit Network Connection (version 12.10.13.0). Could anyone please tell me if this is compatible with Windows 10, and if not, what version do I need to download. I am currently running Windows 7 Pro.

Hi,

After weeks of troubleshooting DPC latency problems on my Lenovo Thinkpad T420 laptop which were causing audio dropouts and mouse freezes every few mins I have finally tracked down the source of the issue. It appears that the Intel 82579LM based Network Controller driver may not be correctly optimised for Windows 8. I'm running Windows 8 Pro 64-bit and am using the latest Intel driver for the controller (12.6.45.0). In troubleshooting the issue I tried everything I could think of such as:

Update BIOS and all drivers to latest versions

Disable CPU and PCI Power Management in BIOS

Disabled onboard Sound (I use a separate professional audio sound card), Wifi, Bluetooth

Change power management settings to High Performance and Disabled USB selective suspend

Turn on all offloading settings on Ethernet NIC

Ran bcdedit /set disabledynamictick yes

Disabling Network Location Awareness in Windows

Nothing made any noticable difference at all. I had also been noticing that my network performance had been pretty poor intermittently on this machine for a while, occasionally experiencing dropouts and low download speeds (yes I know that can be caused by many other factors but please hear me out). Every few mins on the PC I would experience a DPC latency spike of around 95000us to 100000us which would occur right when the audio dropouts, mouse freezes, and probably network pauses would occur. I use the PC for audio production amongst other things so this causes me big issues.

I was totally baffled by the problem until I ran an xperf trace in the Windows Performance Toolkit and saw that the spike was being generated from ndis.sys and tcpip.sys. That got me thinking down the lines of a network related problem so I disabled the onboard Intel(R) 82579LM based Network Controller in Device Manager in Windows 8 and what do you know the problem disappeared competely!!  No more DPC latency spikes ever (tested for hours and many times). I can do pretty much whatever I like on the PC and the problem does not reoccur. Not one single audio dropout in my Audio DAW either. The onboard Wifi is still running (Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 - v15.8.0.5) providing me with network access and download speeds through the wireless nic are both much faster and more stable surprisingly (should be the other way around if anything). As soon as I re-enable the 82579LM NIC the problem is immediately back within a few mins.

I am desperate to get this fixed as I cannot use wireless all of the time. Intel can you please fix the 82579LM driver to make it fully compatible with Windows 8 Pro 64-bit. I'm sure many other people out there are having the same issue and just don't know the cause, or put up with it it as real time applications such as audio are less important to them. I have read about other people having these issues and it only appears to be with Windows 8. I think the drivers are fine for Windows 7, although I haven't confirmed this for sure.

Intel please consider patching the 82579LM NIC driver ASAP for full Windows 8 support. I can assist in providing you information if you require as I'm very keen to get this sorted.

Thanks,

Brad

Hello,

We have a problem with Linux e1000e driver on an on-board e1000e controller, (listed as 82579LM). We have pinpointed the problem to a very simple test case.

A task sends an UDP packet every 5ms. Most of the time, this happens in a few microseconds, but from time to time, this can take a few multiples of 50 microseconds.

Instrumenting the driver, we found that the lost time happens in the function e1000e_update_tail_wa, where the function waits for the register at offset 0x05B54 to contain the bit 0x01000000. We understand from the code that using this register is a workaround for the 82579 chip. Looking at various datasheets, we were not able to find a documentation of what this register does and a description of exactly what this workaround is needed? Since this workaround is consuming time, is there any way we could replace it with say, a software spinlock?

Regards

Hey all,

I'm using Intel 10 Gigabit 82599 NIC in a kvm environment in SR-IOV mode, and I have a few questions:

1. If I'm working with untagged traffic, is it possible to work with VFs in port-trunking mode? isn't there a possibility for a loop in that case?

    If it's possible, is there any configuration that should be done in the level of VFs or L2 classifier?

2. is it possible to move a multi-cast from one VF to another on the same PF? is there a configuration needed for that sake?

3. Is STP protocol supported when working with VFs?

4. Is it possible to start a VM which I attached a VF to, if the PF of this VF is down? (down in ifconfig terms)

Thanks a lot in advance,

Shaham

Hi,

I am having difficulties programming the I210 Flash. In lanconf the flash option to write is greyed out.

If I try to write update NVM image from file in lanconf, I get an error saying the device ID is 0531 but the file ID is 1533.

The Flash I am using is SST25VF040B. The security_enable strapping is enabled with a 3k3 pull down.

If I place a pre-programmed Flash device onto the board in place of the empty device everything works fine. However pre-programming is not an option as we would really like to be able to program them on board.

I really appreciate any help on this matter.

Please let me know if you require any further information.

Kyle.

Hi,

   I need to transmit/receive raw Ethernet packet for fast communication in Windows 7+. Is there a way to do that directly with Intel NIC driver or API ?

Hello.

Could someone help with the problem below?

The case:

We have set up teaming for 2 network interfaces.

There is huge multicast UDP traffic.

Sometimes we need to join and leave multicast addresses to start\stop listening the data.

After the messages (below) appear in Event log the teaming falls apart.

Event Log:

Current Primary Adapter is switching from: Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network Connection

Preferred secondary adapter took over: Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network Connection

Secondary Adapter has rejoined the Team: Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network Connection

Preferred primary adapter has been detected: Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network Connection

Current Primary Adapter is switching from: Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network Connection

Preferred primary adapter took over: Intel(R) I350 Gigabit Network Connection

Little research shows that the problem was initiated by Intel diver in case there are no some heartbeats (even if a heartbeat was late for milliseconds (~100 msec)).

We tried to introduce some delay (2sec) between join\leave multicast group and it allows us to see the problem much less frequently but the problem is still here.

Also we set the settings:

Check Time: 3

Load Balance Refresh Rate: 50

I am creating an windows embedded image for different Intel servers.

Here after installing ProSet and ProAdmin I can able to see Advanced Network Option in device properties.

But after doing sysprep in source machine and restarted the machine and now the Advanced options are not available.

I have a asrock h94 pro4 motherboard with a intel 218-v on it.

The problem i have is that i can't get my full internet speed. (50/5)

On the other laptop that i have, there is no such problem, getting my full speed both via wifi and lan, with the cable that i use for my pc, so its not a cable problem or ISP.

Latest drivers installed.

Is there anything that i'm missing?

Thank you.

Good Morning All,

First id like to thank you all in advance for any assistance given.

I'm here today because I am building  a sweet SAN/NAS for work, and I'm having trouble identifying the proper 10GBe Nic's to use for the connection between the SAN/NAS and the hypervisors.

I think I have nailed it down to this product family "Intel® Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X520 Product Family"

But am still unsure on which adapter to choose.

I'm still teetering back and forth between 10GBe copper and fiber, I think I would prefer copper but am flexible.

Any suggestions?

The plan is to use ISCSI over IP. There will be 2x Primary Hyper-V boxes connecting to the SAN/NAS via 10GBe, we will also have a few other hyper-v boxes connected to this san via existing 1GBe connections (backup/ play boxes)

Again thank you for any advice given.

I'm working on virtual router evaluation with SR-IOV now. My virtual router cannot speak and has proper OSPF relation with external box. Does anyone know how to look into the synopsis deeper? Here are my setup.

1. CSR1K, Cisco virtual router which is running over a server box speaks with an external box

2. SR-IOV is enabled on the server

3. the external box speaks with CSR1K, that means OSPF neighbor has been established

4. CSR1K cannot speak with the external box, it looks that CSR1K cannot recieve any MC/BC packet

5. ethtool shows ixgbe is running with 4.0.1-k-rh7.1, ixgbevf is running with 2.12.1-k

Any input would help me out.

Thanks in advance,

Yuichiro

I have an issue with my onboard network card on an ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming mainboard. The network works ok with windows 7 but when i upgrade to windows 10 I'm getting disconnects & time outs all the time. I am using the driver downloaded from the Asus web site. I also did a clean install of windows 10 with the same results  I have tried various games on steam in windows 10 & all seem to work ok but if I try to download anything on steam its very slow & stop starts alot. I have since gone back to windows 7 & all is working again. Have also searched for other drivers but was not able to find any. This seems to be a driver issue. Any help would be welcome.

Hi all

Currently with the all available versions of the Windows 8.1 x64 I218-V you cannot use Wake On Lan if you have fastboot enabled, which is extremely painful.

Specs of system:

Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit

CPU: Intel Pentium G3420

RAM: 8.00GB DDR3 (9-9-9-27)

Motherboard: ASUS Z97M-PLUS

HDD: 500gb WD Black

This is a media pc, which really would make use of fastboot.

I've tried the drivers, all versions available, from the ASUS site:

Intel LAN Driver V12.11.96.1

Intel LAN Driver V19.0.27.0

This new driver from Intel site:

PROWinx64.exe 19.3

BIOS has correct settings to allow wake on lan.

Every single kind of power related setting imaginable to disable management on ALL devices, full power mode ahead. No joy.

No matter what options you use this horrendous set of drivers does not allow wake on lan with fast boot enabled, unlike every single realtek nic based mobo i've ever used.

I doubt that it will be fixed, or if Intel engineers even read these forums. But here's to hoping...

While it works without fast boot enabled, this is not a fixed. Merely a bandaid to the dodgy driver.

Hey everyone, here is what ive done so far to get to this error shown in the 2012 R2 HyperV VM device manager under device called INTEL(R) I350 Virtual Function, the HyperV host is running 2012 R2 as well with all latest windows patches

Ive enabled the SR-IOV in the BIOS of my motherboard Asus Z10PE D8 running the latest Bios version

I am using an SR-IOV capable Ethernet card I350-T4 Intel OEM

Ive installed the latest intel driver on the Hyperv host and VM

Ive enabled the SR-IOV feature at the driver level on the host under device manager > network card properties> Advanced > virtualization

Ive created a Virtual switch with SR-IOV enabled

Ive added a network adapter to the VM pointing to that SR-IOV enabled switch and under the VM network adapter menu Hardware acceleration, enabled SR-IOV there too

When I add the network card, the device called INTEL(R) I350 Virtual Function #3 shows up in the VM as well as the MICROSOFT Hyper-V Network Adapter

The virtual function device has a warning symbol under device manager, it says: This device cannot find enough ressources that it can use. (Code 12) If you want to use this device you will need to disable one of the other deivces on this system

Any ideas what I am missing? I read online that some motherboard manufacture only enable SR-IOV on specific PCI ports, I looked at my motherboard documentation and there are no mention of this anywhere, only talks about the ENABLE DISABLE option in the bios that ive already enabled

And yes, the host and VM was rebooted multiple times during and after

Hi,

I'm using an ASRock Rack EPC612D8A-TB motherboard with two Intel onboard NICs (I210 (Ethernet 2) and I217-LM (Ethernet)), running Win 8.1 Pro x64 with all Windows Updates installed and the latest Intel Ethernet driver package (20.2.3001.0). My problem is with the I217-LM, according to the Intel spec sheet it does support RSS (cp. figure on page 2).

In the I217-LM's advanced driver settings there is an option to enable and disable RSS. However Windows itself always says that the I217-LM is not RSS-capable.

The same option in the I210 driver options has the expected effect: With the PowerShell command get-SmbClientNetworkInterface you can see the RSS capability changing from True to False and vice versa.

Can anyone tell why the I217-LM is not getting the RSS feature?

Further system details:
CPU: Xeon E5-1620-V3

RAM: 2 x 16 GiB Crucial DDR4-2133 ECC

The motherboard does not have a later BIOS/UEFI release than the one installed.

Thank you very much for your help!

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 have a Wired Ethernet Adapter that's being detected by Windows 10 just fine, but when I try to install its driver (I uninstalled the Proset Software while trying to fix another problem) and/or the Proset Software, it won't complete installation because it says there is no Adapter detected. Can anyone help me get this fixed? The Adapter is an I217-V and it's built in my computer's motherboard, an ASUS Maximus VI Extreme. Thanks ahead of time!