SOLVED Intel X550-T2 not showing up. How to install drivers?

[xxicrimsonixx]

Hi,

I am having problems with an Intel X550-T2 that i just installed. I cannot see it in my NAS, and therefore need to install drivers. I am not very savvy when it comes to CLI, and not sure how to proceed.

One thing I did try is downloading the driver from intel for FreeBSD, and then putting it in my SMB share, going through CLI to compile it, but I got an error saying that I need to set COMPILER_TYPE.

That's as far as I got.

 

[Samuel Tai]

The drivers for this card are already installed in the kernel. It's likely your board isn't recognizing the card. When you run dmesg | more, do you see any messages about unknown devices?

 

[xxicrimsonixx]

root@truenas[~]# dmesg | more
---<<BOOT>>---
Copyright (c) 1992-2020 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 12.2-RELEASE-p3 7851f4a452d(HEAD) TRUENAS amd64
FreeBSD clang version 10.0.1 (git@github.com:llvm/llvm-project.git llvmorg-10.0.1-0-gef32c611aa2)
VT(efifb): resolution 800x600
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2609 0 @ 2.40GHz (2400.05-MHz K8-class CPU)
Origin="GenuineIntel" Id=0x206d7 Family=0x6 Model=0x2d Stepping=7
Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
Features2=0x1fbee3ff<SSE3,PCLMULQDQ,DTES64,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,SMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,PCID,DCA,SSE4.1,SSE4.2,x2APIC,POPCNT,TSCDLT,AESNI,XSAVE,OSXSAVE,AVX>
AMD Features=0x2c100800<SYSCALL,NX
..

There was more at bottom (but its not copying).. Nothing i see about network though... Gonna plug in monitor and see what up there.

 

[xxicrimsonixx]

The drivers for this card are already installed in the kernel. It's likely your board isn't recognizing the card. When you run dmesg | more, do you see any messages about unknown devices?

I swapped the PCIe slot, and it worked. I have 3 available, and it works in only 1 of 3.

 

[jgreco]

Be aware and be warned that there are fake X550's floatin' about. Random problems with them are common. Check to see if the Yottamark on the back side validates.

 

[xxicrimsonixx]

Be aware and be warned that there are fake X550's floatin' about. Random problems with them are common. Check to see if the Yottamark on the back side validates.

It's a Syba card, pretty sure it's legit. My motherboard is a no-name x79 motherboard from China, so that was more than likely the cause.

 

[jgreco]

Okay, well, something cheap from Asia was involved, ;-) ;-)