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Title: Onboard NIC Problem.
Post by: ansentry on February 06, 2011, 10:43:46 PM

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

Title: Re: Onboard NIC Problem.
Post by: p-jones on February 07, 2011, 12:03:47 AM

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

Title: Re: Onboard NIC Problem.
Post by: ansentry on February 07, 2011, 05:22:03 AM

Peter,

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

Title: Re: Onboard NIC Problem.
Post by: alanh on April 30, 2011, 01:49:58 PM

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

Title: Re: Onboard NIC Problem.
Post by: ansentry on April 30, 2011, 11:21:14 PM

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.