Intel® 82579V only set to 100mb?

[peter1209]

Hi
I've have been trying for the past 5 days or so to improve my transfer speeds and think i've finally narrowed it down to the network card only connecting at 100mb instead of 1gb.
After running "ifconfig -a | grep media" it reports "media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)". I have tried putting media "1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" and "media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex" but this just kills the connection and I have to manually reset it again back to default.
When I run "ifconfig -m" supported media comes back as:

media autoselect
media 1000baseT
media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
media 100baseTX
media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
media 10baseT/UTP

I'm a complete noob when it come to linux, i've been searching the forums for days trying to figure this out.

All computers on my network are 1gb, the switch is an unmanaged 1gb switch, the cables are all cat6 which have all been tested with cable tester.

My system is:
motherboard: Intel DH61DL (found here)
Memory: 4gb (I know this is on the low side)
Processor: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU G530 @ 2.40GHz.
Freenas: FreeNAS-8.2.0-RELEASE-p1-x64 (r11950)

Anyone have any advice on how to sort this? Sorry is this has already been answered in another post, i 've been looking at tried everything i can find, maybe its something I missed somewhere.

Many thanks.

 

[William Grzybowski]

I have this exact same board and it works at gigabit, however it is running 8.3.0.

Try another cable, is autoselect is not working something is not right for sure.

 

[peter1209]

its driving me nuts, i want to upgrade to 8.3.0 but am scared to do so at the moment.
Problem is im trying to backup all the data that is currently on the drives, my orig backups got destroyed due to water leak from flat above us but its taking forever, at the moment its transferring at 10mb roughly and is going to take 9 hours.

Because I dont really know what im doing im scared of losing the drives and data, after reading lots of posts and getting really confused over if i can mount the drives again with data intact or it will wipe the drives I cant take that chance.

 

[peter1209]

I just gave up in the end, I cant get it to work, tried different cables, tried to upgrade via GUI but just kept coming up with error, tried a fresh install of 8.3.0 and the problem is still there. I installed win 7 to check the card and make sure there where no hardware issues and everything came up correctly and connected to network at 1gb. 5 days wasted on this.

 

[William Grzybowski]

Code:

em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=4219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO>
        capabilities=5399b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether e8:40:f2:09:6b:d0
        inet 192.168.3.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255 
        inet 192.168.3.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.3.3 
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media 1000baseT
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
                media 10baseT/UTP

Code:

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
        Product Name: DH61DL
        Version: AAG14066-205
        Serial Number: BTDL212002AW
        Asset Tag: Not Specified
        Features:
                Board is a hosting board
                Board is replaceable
        Location In Chassis: Not Specified
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003
        Type: Motherboard
        Contained Object Handles: 0

Code:

em0@pci0:0:25:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x200e8086 chip=0x15038086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82579V Gigabit Network Connection'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

Exact same border, freenas 8.3-p1.
So, software is not the issue, I'd bet it is the cable or switch. FreeBSD is pickier than Windows about it.

 

[William Grzybowski]

Code:

em0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=4219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO>
        capabilities=5399b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO>
        ether e8:40:f2:09:6b:d0
        inet 192.168.3.15 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.3.255 
        inet 192.168.3.3 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.3.3 
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
        status: active
        supported media:
                media autoselect
                media 1000baseT
                media 1000baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt full-duplex
                media 10baseT/UTP

Code:

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
        Manufacturer: Intel Corporation
        Product Name: DH61DL
        Version: AAG14066-205
        Serial Number: BTDL212002AW
        Asset Tag: Not Specified
        Features:
                Board is a hosting board
                Board is replaceable
        Location In Chassis: Not Specified
        Chassis Handle: 0x0003
        Type: Motherboard
        Contained Object Handles: 0

Code:

em0@pci0:0:25:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x200e8086 chip=0x15038086 rev=0x05 hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
    device     = '82579V Gigabit Network Connection'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

Exact same board, freenas 8.3-p1.
So, software is not the issue, I'd bet it is the cable or switch. FreeBSD is pickier than Windows about it.

 

[peter1209]

Its def not the cable or even the switch, i tried several cables, even made one up myself and I also have a cable tester. Ran the cable end to end and through the switch, all came back with no errors and correct speed.

 

[William Grzybowski]

Long shot, but BIOS maybe.

I just can't believe freebsd is the issue here ;)

 

[peter1209]

what setting in the BIOS could possibly make it not run at full speed, I have been through thr bios and cant see anything that might affect it.

 

[William Grzybowski]

I meant upgrade BIOS, not tweak anything.