Everything functions fine with two motherboard NICs. DSS seems to know that the four additional ports are there; however, DSS doesn’t install them as ethernet interfaces. I say that because there are four Intel Corporation Gigabit ET2 Quad Port Server Adapter listings under the Status/Hardware/Controllers info panel.
Specifications of the new Intel quad-port adapter:
Name: Intel Gigabit ET2 Multi-Port Adapter
Model: E1G44ET2
Controller: Intel 82576
Device ID: 1526
Vendor ID: 8086
I notice that DSS has current product compatibility with five 82576-based Intel network interfaces with device IDs of 10C9, 10E6, 10E7, 10E8, and 150A. That being the case I have two questions:
1) When can we expect DSS to support the Intel E1G44ET2 ?
2) In the meantime, is there a way to install the new device with a driver that supports one the five older 82576-based Intel interface cards ?
re: DSS V6 support for Intel Gigabit ET2 Quad (model E1G44ET2)
The motherboard has the latest bios and other PCI Express 2.0 slots have been tried as suggested; however, still unsuccessful.
Please confirm that DSS V6 build 5087 contains the Open-E patch reference by Newegg customer in a Dec 13 review, which I highlighted below.
Comments by Kevin, Dec 13 2010
Great for link aggregation Pros: Fast, latest gen Intel card. Good price for what you get. Doesn't appear to get that hot. Cons: So new that some systems might not recognize it as of December 2010. Not Intel's fault though. Otros Pensamientos: I use a couple of these in some nice 2U 2950 servers. They are running Open-E DSSv6 in an HA setup. I had to get a patch from Open-E to run them. They told me that only 64-bit systems will be supported FYI. I'm bonding these using 802.3ad with an HP switch. I have Redhat Enterprise Virtualization hypervisors connecting to my SAN and it's very fast.
Try to go into the Console screen and enter CTRL ALT T then select Boot options then select System parameters and disable all except for the SMP then save and reboot and see if this works.