Hi

 

I have an issue with the network cable on my unraid build.

motherboard is Intel DG45ID and it is working flawlessly with unraid 4.5.3, except the cables i am able to use.

 

My issue is that i can only use one specific cable, which is the cable i got with my xbox360. It only has 4 wires instead of 8 as a cat 5e cable. This cable gives me 100mb, it stable and there is issues, besides the reduced speed.

If i use any other cable it will not work and i hear a consistent two tone beep. (different pitch). Any other cable i have tried, besides the xbox360 cable, have been cat5 cables with 8 wires (cat5, cat5e and various crossover cables etc) and they are working with other pcs/macs.

 

when using a cat5e cable (of any kind) the output from ethtool eth0 is identical to the output below, except:

 

Speed: Unknown! (65535)

Duplex: Unknown! (255)

 

Any clues as to what is going on?

I have posted hardware details below.

 

My switch is a d-link dgs1005D.

 

NIC: (/sbin/lspci -v)

Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LF-2 Gigabit Network Connection

Subsystem: Intel Corporation Unknown device 5002

Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 24

Memory at d0600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

Memory at d0624000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

I/O ports at f100

Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2

Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+

Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information

Kernel driver in use: e1000e

Kernel modules: e1000e

 

ethernet info:

 

NIC info (from ethtool)

Settings for eth0:

Supported ports: [ TP ]

Supported link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                        1000baseT/Full

Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full

                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full

                        1000baseT/Full

Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

Speed: 100Mb/s

Duplex: Full

Port: Twisted Pair

PHYAD: 2

Transceiver: internal

Auto-negotiation: on

Supports Wake-on: pumbag

Wake-on: g

Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)

Link detected: yes

 

NIC driver info (from ethtool -i)

driver: e1000e

version: 1.0.2-k2

firmware-version: 1.8-5

bus-info: 0000:00:19.0

 

Ethernet config info (from ifconfig)

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1c:c0:8e:bf:7b 

          inet addr:192.168.0.20  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:343 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:216 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100

          RX bytes:46275 (45.1 KiB)  TX bytes:56084 (54.7 KiB)

          Memory:d0600000-d0620000

 

That sounds an awful lot like a hardware issue. Do you have another (PCI, or USB) ethernet controller you could attach to the unRAID server to test with?

 

I'm going to assume you've already tried more than one port on the switch, so it's sounding to me like a bad onboard NIC.

No spare ethernet controller at hand - and yes i have tried all ports on the switch.

Sounds plausible that the ethernet controller is bad, the issue is way to weird to be software/driver related.

Next move must be to buy a new ethernet controller.

 

thanks