I bought a genuine Intel E610-XT2 for my Unraid home server build. It’s been a fun few months learning the ropes and converting my tower gaming rig over to a server.

I bought this NIC because I’m a specs nerd and I couldn’t help myself. My mobo only has one remaining viable pci e slot left and it’s a 4.0 4x slot. Yes I could have gotten an older stable card but I’m a sucker for the latest and greatest and I liked the fact that it’s still Ethernet and claims to not exceed 5.1w under full load.

Plus it’s real intel and real server grade. Anyways…

It pops up in Unraid system devices as:

8086:57b0] 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller E610 10GBASE T

But it won’t bind to a driver. I’ve spent hours with chat gpt and Google ai trying so many different options to get it to stick to either .ice or .ixgbe. Neither one works on the latest Unraid build.

I flashed the latest nvm to 1.40 when I got the card. Intel says it’ll work fine if I can get on a modern ixgbe driver but unraid is locked and I am REALLY liking Unraid overall.

Any ideas outside of running an unsupported kernel or waiting for Unraid to ship a modern ixgbe driver?

-Unraid 7.2.3

-Fractal Meshify 2xl case

-Intel 13700k

-32gb 7200 DDR5 RAM

-MSI Mag Z790 Tomahawk WiFi

-9305-16i HBA with 3D printed shroud and 60mm noctua fan

-Intel e610-XT2 NIC

-8x HDDs currently. Planning for 14

Edited January 12Jan 12 by CheeseBalls

From what I can find, it should use the standard Intel ixgbe driver. Please post the diagnostics

JorgeB,

I apologize if I didn’t attach the correct diagnostics but here’s my ethtool and lspci. I also attached a screenshot of modinfo ixgbe which doesn’t seem to list my 57b0 pci device id for the e610. Thank you for all the support and quick reply!

ethtool.txtlspci.txt

And the diags? Need the syslog at least.

Here’s the syslog. Let me know if you need others

syslog.txt

There's no driver support in Unraid, but I'm getting conflicting information from AI, Gemini says that it uses ixgbe, but it needs a newer version, and ChatGPT says that it uses the ice driver (which is also included with Unraid), in any case, there's no support currently; there may be in Unraid 7.3

Ah ok bummer. Well I’ll hang on to the card until it’s supported I guess. I’m happy to be the guinea pig for a test build 😂

I'm running Unraid 7.3.0 beta2 on my server and got my intel e610-xt2 yesterday. Replaced my Gigabyte 10GBit/s networkcard (with AQC113 chip) because aqc113 card looses network after 1-3weeks uptime. After powering up no network due to cable connected to lower rj45 port (which is eth1). Connected to upper rj45, rebooted and all is fine.

Server reaches now C10 instead of C8 and power went down ~2.5W. Maybe the used power increases after a few days - at least i've seen this qith aqc113 where power is 1-2W less after a reboot compared to one week later.

System is a gigabyte z690 ud ddr4 board, 2 NVMe installed, 64GB DDR4, 6 hdds in standby. Otherwise only usb stick connected and 3 dockers are running but normaly idle.

On 4/24/2026 at 8:22 AM, MrWGT said:

I'm running Unraid 7.3.0 beta2 on my server and got my intel e610-xt2 yesterday. Replaced my Gigabyte 10GBit/s networkcard (with AQC113 chip) because aqc113 card looses network after 1-3weeks uptime. After powering up no network due to cable connected to lower rj45 port (which is eth1). Connected to upper rj45, rebooted and all is fine.

Server reaches now C10 instead of C8 and power went down ~2.5W. Maybe the used power increases after a few days - at least i've seen this qith aqc113 where power is 1-2W less after a reboot compared to one week later.

System is a gigabyte z690 ud ddr4 board, 2 NVMe installed, 64GB DDR4, 6 hdds in standby. Otherwise only usb stick connected and 3 dockers are running but normaly idle.

The C states part is interesting, my I226 does not like ASPM and this looks like a good replacement.

Any chance you could run lspci -vvv and post the output for the E610?