Intel DX79SI PCI Simple Communications Controller and Ethernet Wake On Lan

[HerkLoadie]

I have an old DX79SI board with a E5-2680 Xeon I am using as a home media server. I have Windows 10 installed and the system works great.

I am trying to configure the Wake On Lan for the Ethernet ports, but under the Advanced tab for each network adapter, there is no option for Wake On Lan or to enable the Magic Packet.

The bios is configured with Wake On Lan enabled. Intel Driver Update seems to think that the driver needs to be updated, but then does not recognize any Intel hardware installed when I run the setup.

I also have an exclamation mark next to the PCI Simple Communications Controller.

I understand this is an "old" board...but the system works perfectly and would hate to trash it.

Does anyone have a way to work this? Only thing I could think of is getting a new PCI Ethernet controller with current driver support...maybe something faster than 1-Gig Ethernet.

[n_scott_pearson · Accepted solution]

First of all, the PCI Simple Communications Controller is actually the Intel Management Engine Interface. I have attached the oldest Windows 10 driver package that I have in my archive for this device. Hopefully it still recognizes the X79 chipset and will resolve successfully.

As for the Ethernet devices, both are indicated as having support for Wake on LAN in the Motherboard's TPS. Have you enabled Wake on the Power Management tab?

Hope this helps,

...S

[HerkLoadie]

Thank You Scott on the Management Engine Interface. Your file worked perfectly.

As for the Ethernet NICs on-board and wake-on-LAN, it appears that since Intel no longer supports the drivers for these NICs, the generic drivers from Microsoft do not support the features in a Windows 10 / 11 environment.

[n_scott_pearson]

For the LAN issue, I have some older packages in my archive that you could try. They're too big to attach here, but I have added them to one of my OneDrive shares (here: Other Legacy Drivers). Files you want to try are LAN 24.3 Win10 x64 (NUC Gen 3-5).exe and LAN 22.10 Win10 x64 Legacy.exe.

Hope this helps,

...S

[Elena12]

Buongiorno ho riscontrato un problema sul sistema operativo di windows 7 in pratica mi manca il driver Controller PCI Simple Communications e non riesco a trovarlo. Per caso Lei lo possiede? Grazie

[n_scott_pearson]

The PCI Simple Communications Controller device is actually the hardware interface for communications with entities running on the Intel Management Engine (ME). You need to install the Intel Management Engine driver package to resolve this issue.

Now, if you are not using any of the manageability features - and I would say you don't seem to be - then you can simply ignore this issue. It doesn't hurt anything having it remain unresolved. If you absolutely want it resolved, however, I have uploaded a copy of the package to my OneDrive. Access it here: https://1drv.ms/f/c/3e6ae23415649cd6/QtacZBU04moggD4CEwQAAAAA-ZscC-c2BlQKiQ. You want file ME_Consumer_Win7-10_11.8.50.3470.zip. If that doesn't work, there is an older version, ME_Consumer_Win7-10_11.0.6.1194.zip. that you can also try.

Hope this helps,

...S

[Elena12]

Hi Mr. Scott, even before I wanted to thank you, as before you wrote I read the chat here and found some drivers and installed them and I can assure you that everything went amazingly well! So I renew my thanks! I wish you a good continuation of your day