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windexh8er

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Registered: 2008-05-04

Posts: 32

The e1000e and fiber NICs

I have some hardware that I'm repurposing which includes a box that has 82546GB based controllers on it.  Two of these controllers are copper and four are fiber:

04:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
04:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)

06:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
06:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
07:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)
07:02.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 03)

The problem is I can't seem to get the fiber interfaces to light up.  I've tried the stock drivers as well as the source downloaded from Intel (version 1.3.17).  Whenever I unload the e1000 driver (of which works correctly with the copper ports) and load up e1000e I get no interfaces.  Any thoughts on where to look next?

Here's one of the copper interfaces from an lshw output:

*-network:0
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:04:02.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 03
       serial: 00:30:48:30:0d:4a
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm pcix msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.21-k8-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.1.99.70 latency=64 link=yes mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:54 memory:dd300000-dd31ffff ioport:3000(size=64)

...and here's on of the fiber interfaces:

 *-network:0
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
       logical name: eth2
       version: 03
       serial: 00:e0:ed:07:22:c2
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm pcix msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical fibre 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000 driverversion=7.3.21-k8-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A latency=52 link=yes mingnt=255 multicast=yes port=fibre speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:72 memory:dd500000-dd51ffff ioport:4000(size=64)

Last edited by windexh8er (2011-06-23 19:52:29)

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: The e1000e and fiber NICs

please use BBCode code tags to present outputs etc. Makes it easier to read and prevents threads from getting too long.

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