Retail i210-T1 showing up as unprogrammed

[lukehatpadl]

I purchased two i210-T1s from a local Australian retailer, for use developing a AVB/TSN product. They are showing as unprogrammed/blank (Vendor-Device 8086-1531).

Intel(R) Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility
BootUtil version 1.39.20.0
Copyright (C) 2003-2022 Intel Corporation

Type BootUtil -? for help

Port Network Address Location Series  WOL Flash Firmware                Version
==== =============== ======== ======= === ============================= =======
  1   XXXXXXXXXXXX     0:25.0 Gigabit YES FLASH Not Present
  2   XXXXXXXXXXXX     1:00.0 Gigabit N/A FLASH Not Present
  3   XXXXXXXXXXXX     8:00.0 Gigabit N/A FLASH Not Present

(NIC 1 is the motherboard NIC.)

Looking at the packaging, they appear to be genuine Intel (version G86562-006, date 06/10/2024, batch #THCR46A6AW). Now, whilst my organisation does have a MAC block and am happy to sign a CNDA, surely this shouldn't be necessary for a retail product? I simply want to use it for testing.

[lukehatpadl]

For now, I've just patched the igb driver to support the tools-only mode and force assign a MAC address. That seems to at least let me bring the interface up.

[19815.969853] igb: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver
[19815.969858] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation.
[19815.997571] pps pps0: new PPS source ptp1
[19815.997623] igb 0000:01:00.0: added PHC on eth0
[19815.997640] igb 0000:01:00.0: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Connection
[19815.997641] igb 0000:01:00.0: eth0: (PCIe:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 8c:1f:64:e8:90:00
[19815.997644] igb 0000:01:00.0: eth0: PBA No: FFFFFF-0FF
[19815.997646] igb 0000:01:00.0: Using MSI-X interrupts. 4 rx queue(s), 4 tx queue(s)
[19815.999640] igb 0000:01:00.0 ens4: renamed from eth0
[19816.009388] igb 0000:08:00.0: using PADL OUI as default igb MAC
[19816.026848] pps pps1: new PPS source ptp2
[19816.026967] igb 0000:08:00.0: added PHC on eth0
[19816.026994] igb 0000:08:00.0: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Connection
[19816.026998] igb 0000:08:00.0: eth0: (PCIe:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 8c:1f:64:e8:90:01
[19816.027199] igb 0000:08:00.0: eth0: PBA No: G69016-005
[19816.027203] igb 0000:08:00.0: Using MSI-X interrupts. 4 rx queue(s), 4 tx queue(s)
[19816.028339] igb 0000:08:00.0 enp8s0: renamed from eth0