I know how to do it in windows obviously but how would I do it in UnRAID? I have been told the stock drivers I’m using are awful and would like to update them. Truthfully I’d like to update other drivers as well but mostly this. Thanks!

What is the chip set that you are talking about and what problems are you having with the current driver?

2 hours ago, Frank1940 said:

What is the chip set that you are talking about and what problems are you having with the current driver?

The mother board is the Z690I AORUS ULTRA LITE DDR4. The chipset is the intel I225-V LAN chipset. I am not really having problems with it but I have read in a few places that the newer drivers are better and that people had issues with the stock driver.

There is a 'Feature Request' subforum for these types of requests. 

 

BUT I can tell you that LimeTech is not receptive to these requests unless that it causes a real problem in the operation of Unraid!  Back in 2015, Tom (along with other members of the team) and I had a long discussion about a real problem with a Linux stock Realtek driver.  (BTW, Linux is the ugly stepchild to  Realtek-- their bread-and-butter is Windows!.)  The stock driver had a problem with very short interruptions in the outgoing data stream which resulted in a hiccup in the playback of BluRay material.  It only happened with very slow processors.  Tom did compile the RealTek driver and it worked.  (That provided proof that the problem was in the stock driver...)  

 

Tom pointed out that, at that point in time, the chip suppliers did not always update their Linux drivers for the most recent Linux kernels.  Some times these older drivers would not compile and run with the new kernel.  Fixing the coding problem(s) to allow it to compile required more resources then he was willing to devote.  So he was reluctant to switch from the Linux stock driver to the manufacturer's version.   

 

I would think that you could compile the driver and install it into the working kernel to replace the known Linux stock driver.  (When LimeTech and I were working together, this was what was done.  Tom compiled the RealTek driver that would work for that kernel and provide me the commands to install it in place of the Linux kernel driver.  I put the five BASH commands into a shell script file, added a command to   go  file to call that shell script to install the new driver on startup.)  

 

PS---  How did I fix the problem permanently?  I purchased an Intel Gb NIC card.