Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network on wildabeast performance machine

[igguk]

hello,

I have exactly the same problem with my new configuration : Intel DH55TC
The LAN chipset is the same : 82578D.

igguk@cixi:~# lspci | grep Eth
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)

igguk@cixi:~# uname -a
Linux cixi 2.6.31-19-server #56-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 28 03:40:48 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

igguk@cixi:~# dmesg | grep "Link is"
[ 6.349357] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX

igguk@cixi:~# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

igguk@cixi:~# ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: Not reported
Advertised auto-negotiation: No
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 1
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: off
Supports Wake-on: d
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
Link detected: yes

My system starts at 10M, I force 100M with ethtool, if I force 1000M, LAN card died (no more LEDs).
Moreover, the transfers are very slow, I have an average of 2.4MB/s on a 3GB file, my network is GB and jai on another small server averaged 55MB/s.

My Ubuntu is a Ubuntu Server 9.10 and my installation is fresh this afternoon.

Have you a fix for me ?

Best regards.

Igguk.
( igguk...at...php4mac...dot...com)

[dwhecht]

Thanks Tom for the drivers. I ran the update, per your instructions, but still experienced the same problem. My network connection drops when I change speed to 1000Mbps. I tried a reboot too, with the additional rmmod and modprobes ran again after reboot.

Currently my router is only capable of 100Mpbs, so I'm not sure if maybe this is normal activity when you don't have 1000Mpbs router to talk to on the other end?

That could just be normal operation, and I could be dealing with a different issue currently where my 100Mpbs throughput is very poor, as mentioned by the above poster too.

[dwhecht]

Additional system information.

uname -a
Linux dw-htpc 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 17:01:44 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

lspci | grep Eth
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82578DC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05)

mii-tool eth0
SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error
SIOCGMIIREG on eth0 failed: Input/output error
eth0: 100 Mbit, full duplex, link ok

sudo dmesg | grep "Link is"
[ 7.227768] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 10 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[ 58.163391] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[ 1073.155316] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None

[dwhecht]

Additional info:

I do receive this message each time I try to make install the e1000e driver.

cannot write to /var/cache/man/cat7/e1000e.7.gz in catman mode

The message displays at the bottom of the complete output but all other activity related to make install appears to happen without issue. I tried sudo -s and still received the above message.

[thomasaaron]

I would think that driver should work for you, but as I said, we just don't have your particular mobo to test with. The name of that particular archive...

e1000e.7.gz

...is a bit perplexing. Please run...

ls /var/cache/man/cat7

...and see if you have a bunch of e100e gz archives. For example...

e1000e.6.gz
e1000e.5.gz
etc...

If you do, try deleting them all with...

sudo rm /var/cache/man/cat7/e100e.*.gz

...and then try running make install again.

[dwhecht]

ls /var/cache/man/cat7/ turns up no files. Is the make install trying to write the e1000e.7.gz file to this location or update an existing file?

Do you think this "catman mode" message is even relevant to the problem? I tried restarting my network services, after making, install, rmmod and modprobe, via /etc/init.d/networking restart but that didn't make any difference either.

[dwhecht]

Is the e1000e driver version 1.1.2 you sent the standard driver you can get on sourceforge or from Intel directly? Did you do any modification to it?

[dwhecht]

sudo ethtool -i eth0
driver: e1000e
version: 1.1.2-NAPI
firmware-version: 0.12-5
bus-info: 0000:00:19.0

[thomasaaron]

Is the e1000e driver version 1.1.2 you sent the standard driver you can get on sourceforge or from Intel directly? Did you do any modification to it?

Straight from Intel. No modifications.

[gdecoster]

Hello,

I have the exact same problem. My system starts at 10M instead of 1000M. I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 64-bit Desktop edition on a system with an Intel DP55WB motherboard (with integrated Gigabit NIC). The router I'm connecting to is Gigabit capable.

I managed to update the e1000e driver. The new driver works perfectly fine except that it reverts back to the old version after a reboot.
To get it back to work with the new driver I have to run sudo rmmod e1000e & sudo modprobe e1000e.

Is there a way to make the new driver “stick” after a reboot ?

For the record, here's how I updated the network driver:
1.Download latest e1000e driver from http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/ (in e1000e stable folder)
2.cd /home/<userID>/Downloads (default folder for FireFox downloads)
3.tar zxf e1000e-1.1.2.tar.gz
4.cd e1000e-1.1.2/src
5.sudo make install
6.sudo rmmod e1000e
7.sudo modprobe e1000e

Output of ethtool -i eth0 after the driver update (and before a reboot)
driver: e1000e

version: 1.1.2-NAPI

firmware-version: 0.12-5

bus-info: 0000:00:19.0