Ethernet driver ubuntu 14.04 - Ethnernet controller I219-LM on Dell Optiplex 7050

[DKris4]

Hello Vince!

I am trying to install Intel Ethernet Connection (5) I219-LM in my Dell Optiplex 7050 with Ubuntu 14.04. I tried the ways mentioned in the above steps, and the build went through. Unfortunately, the driver was not installed properly. I couldn't find the drivers in the driver folder. Please let me know what to do further.

Thanks & Regards,

Dileep

[idata]

Hi Dileep-krishnan,

Thank you for posting in Wired Communities. Have you tried contacting Dell* support for the customized driver? What is the out put of the ethtool -i command?

Thanks,

Sharon

[LJin3]

I have the same issue here. So I downloaded the driver and did make install. It compiles fine but I didn't see NIC gets detected from dmsg.

ljin@li-Tower-3620-14:~/Downloads/igb-5.3.5.4/src$ uname -a

Linux li-Tower-3620-14 3.13.0-32-generic # 57-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 03:51:08 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

ljin@li-Tower-3620-14:~/Downloads/igb-5.3.5.4/src$ dmesg | tail

[36192.577111] perf samples too long (2524 > 2500), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 50000

[60863.231197] Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver - version 5.3.5.4

[60863.231203] Copyright (c) 2007-2015 Intel Corporation.

ljin@li-Tower-3620-14:~/Downloads/igb-5.3.5.4/src$ lsmod | grep igb

igb 194328 0

ptp 18933 1 igb

dca 15130 1 igb

ljin@li-Tower-3620-14:~/Downloads/igb-5.3.5.4/src$ inxi -SNxz

System: Host: li-Tower-3620-14 Kernel: 3.13.0-32-generic x86_64 (64 bit, gcc: 4.8.2)

Desktop: Gnome Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty

Network: Card-1: Intel Ethernet Connection (2) I219-LM bus-ID: 00:1f.6

Card-2: MosChip MCS7830 10/100 Mbps Ethernet adapter driver: MOSCHIP usb-ethernet driver usb-ID: 001-003

BTW since the interface doesn't show up, I can't use ethtool to dump out the information. I traced the code a bit and found the probe function is not called.

Li

[LJin3]

So I found this driver and it appears to work with the NIC.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/e1000e%20stable/3.3.5.10/e1000e-3.3.5.10.tar.gz/download https://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/e1000e%20stable/3.3.5.10/e1000e-3.3.5.10.tar.gz/download

[idata]

Hi LiJin,

Thank you for sharing the information. Regards,Sharon

[DKris4]

Dear LiJin,

Thanks for the driver. It works now.

Thanks & Regards,

Dileep Krishnan

[DKris4]

I tried contacting Dell support, but, since it is Ubuntu, they told they don't support queries regarding open Source software. When I tried ethtool -i command, it is asking to install ethtool first.

Thanks & Regards,

Dileep