RTL8111E not detecting gigabit and stops working if set to 1000baseT

[Wolfeman0101]

I bought the MSI 760GM-P23 (FX) motherboard and it has the onboard Realtek PCI-E GbLAN controller RTL8111E. It is plugged into a gigabit switch but it only detect 100baseTX. If I try to manually set 1000baseT the network completely stops working. My data transfer speeds are at like 12MB/s right now :(

16GB of RAM and an AMD FX-4100 CPU.

 

[Wolfeman0101]

Running FreeNAS-8.2.0-BETA4-x64 (r11722)

 

[Z300M]

I have an Asus F1A75-V Pro motherboard with the same on-board networking, but I don't recall whether I even tried that before taking the advice of others here and installing an Intel EXPI9301CT PCI-E card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106033

Realtek cards/chips don't seem to be regarded highly.

 

[Wolfeman0101]

I have an Asus F1A75-V Pro motherboard with the same on-board networking, but I don't recall whether I even tried that before taking the advice of others here and installing an Intel EXPI9301CT PCI-E card:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833106033

Realtek cards/chips don't seem to be regarded highly.

Yeah I'm probably going that direction but I've heard other people say the RTL8111E works fine. What kind of transfer speeds do you get now?

 

[jeebs01]

What type of switch? If its managed, verify its actually running at 1Gbps versus 100Mbps.

I too agree about the Realtek chips. Had a pair on a Supermicro board that would only support 7000 MTU...

 

[Wolfeman0101]

It's an unmanaged switch but my desktop and other devices get gigabit speeds using it.

 

[mrME]

Save yourself the headaches and just get an Intel NIC.

 

[Wolfeman0101]

Save yourself the headaches and just get an Intel NIC.

Yeah that's what I did.