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