Topic: Onboard NIC Problem.

[ansentry]

Version 7.5.1
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-H67MA-D2H
Realtek RTL8111E chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
ethtool eth0 shows:

Supported ports: [FIBRE]

The NIC is not working, ifconfig appears fine. I suspect the problem is the "Supported ports: [FIBRE]" , if I'm correct how do I change it?

Prior to installing SME 7.5.1 on this machine I installed Win7 and the card worked fine.

Thanks in advance for any help

[p-jones]

John

I have come accross this issue several times. Issue is simply that the hardware is not in the hardware compatibility list and it doesnt work properly.

Easiest solution is a workaround. Turn the NIC off in the BIOS and throw in an el-cheapo 10/100 NIC into a PCI Slot. One could also choose a Gb NIC from the compatability list and work with that.

You may have better success with SME 8

Not much of a solution I know but with SME8 on the horizon, I think it is probably too big an ask to get the dev team to get some of the newer hardware working and get SME 8 to a production version (where this and many other hardware issues  are likely to resolve themselves )

Peter

[ansentry]

Peter,

Thanks for your reply, the el-cheapo was my next option.

[alanh]

John, did the el cheapo net card work?  I have the same MB and same problem, its PCI Express slots only on mine, what card did you get?

Alan

[ansentry]

Alan,

I did not solve the problem, I changed the motherboard to Gigabyte GA-H55m-S2V and put in a TP-Link PCI NIC card. It appears to be working fine. I changed to this board because it had PCI Slots.