[OmniOS-discuss] Onboard Intel X540-T2 10gbe NIC shows 1gbit

[Dan McDonald]

On Jun 9, 2014, at 7:14 PM, Rune Tipsmark <rt at steait.net> wrote:

> As stated above,
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> Got a Super Micro X9DRE-TF+ with onboard Intel X540 10Gbase-T with a cat6 cable straight into another server (with Windows) using a PCI-E Intel X540-T2 10Gbase-T as well.
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> Both ends are set to autosense, however only 1gbit is detected on OmniOS, I can force 10Gbit on Windows, but it won’t come up because the other end supports max 1Gbit.
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> I tried changing link speed manually in OmniOS, no luck, says not supported.
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> Why does it not detect proper 10Gbit on the OmniOS end of things? Any suggestions as how to get this working?
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> Version is 151010 , tried reinstall already – no difference.

10Gig on here should work.  I've not had hands-on experience with built-in ones, but I've used add-on cards with X540 to great success.

Did you inspect /var/adm/messages for any complaints from "ixgbe"?  You're using cat6, which is good.  One silly question --> on the BIOS on the OmniOS box, did you enable PCIe mappings for only the low 32-bits?  That's a longshot, I know, but it may be an issue.

ALSO, we recently had someone else on-list post about X540, and it turned out they needed a firmware upgrade to get it to work.  Please make sure your BIOS and device firmware are up to date.

Dan