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Help with x540-t2 10gbe in 918+


Captainfingerbang

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Im having no luck at all getting my 10gbe cards recognized by DSM.  

 

 i've had the exact card working on the 3615 image but it wont work on either of my 918+ setups.

 

 

These  x540-t2   are supported OOB from synologies page here so im not sure whats up.

 

Shouldn't this card (x540-t2)  work OOB without driver ext on ds918+ 1.04b image?

 

Or do i need to install the driver extension?  Any help would be seriously appreciated

 

 

 

 

 

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1 час назад, mervincm сказал:

Yes the 10g works bare metal and no I didn’t have to add a driver. I am on 1.04b 918+ 5.21 with hardware transcoding working for plex on 390z chipset and i3-8100 cpu   I have not yet tried the 6.22

Try with any fresh hdd and the new flash, if it'll work - get your position to update for your master system.

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Yup, I have a lot of spare gear to test with. After being down trying to get the 9600K CPU hw transcoding working, I am enjoying a nice stable working system for a while :)

 

I am hoping the drivers get updated to work with the 9600K CPU, and that the turbo mode issue is resolved at some point, but till then, the i3-8100 is working remarkably well.

 

 

 

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Could you tell me is your Intel 10 GBe Networkadapter wokring with a fresh install from DSM when only the 10Gbe card is connected??

thank you very mucb 

 

The reason for this Question is i have Mellanox 3 Networkadapter  and for a fresh DSM Install i need to connect both Networkadapters my mellanox and my intel on Board Networkadapter with Loader 1.02b and DSM 15284 DSM6.1 alone with the mellanox Networkadapter the server is not found in the network when the installations done it is working with the mellanox card alone

 

 

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On 4/28/2019 at 1:42 AM, mervincm said:

Yes the 10g works bare metal and no I didn’t have to add a driver. I am on 1.04b 918+ 5.21 with hardware transcoding working for plex on 390z chipset and i3-8100 cpu   I have not yet tried the 6.22

Hi, I bought 560SFP+ 82599 and install 1.04b 918 6.2 DSM_DS918+_23739.pat

I don't see 560sfp+ when install completed ,only 2 onboard intel nic 

I add 4 mac address  in grub.cfg file

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On 4/27/2019 at 11:42 AM, mervincm said:

5.21

this was an error.  I have 6.21-23824U6

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my systemboard NIC is disabled, and I only have a single fiber to my dual port NIC

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I used the 2 synology MAC in the guide

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I had issues with DSM not recognising my x550 NICs onboard my Supermicro MB.

If I'm not wrong the module of that NIC is basee on igb drivers.

this change worked for me:

 

 

Try modifying the grub file as following if it doesn't work:

In the gub file change the following line:
Code: Select all
initrd $img/ramdisk.lzma $img/$extra_initrd
to: 
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initrd $img/$extra_initrd $img/ramdisk.lzma

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Hey flyride, 

It's been a while since I read the spec of 918+ Xpen dsm but quick question about 10gbe.

 

I Have 2 918+ 1.04b baremetal all ssd arrays- both with pcie x1 intel nic to router. Then, I have x540-t2 in both units. Not using on board Realtek nic. 

I Have the x540-t2's direct connected but showing only 1 network interface in dsm for the x540-t2 cards, it's not showing both. For example I want to link aggregate and bind. 

 

I recall reading something about a max lan port limitation for Xpen 918+ but not sure,i forgot. 

 

  • Is this most likely caused by me not using an extra.lzma?

          And/Or

  • Would this be because I only listed 1 nic in config when setting up the dsm usb drive? 
  • To solve this would I need to remake the dsm usb drive but add the extra.lzma

 

I'm trepidatious to remake usb drives because there's important data on 1,backed up to the other. 

 

 

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Just wanted to share my progress here to help others who might stumble into this post. I got 2 Inspur Intel X540-T2 10gbe from Aliexpress for $20 each. On Windows 11, I had to search for driver for it. v26 driver for Intel x64 worked. (v28 did not work)

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/58954/intel-ethernet-converged-network-adapter-x540t2/downloads.html

 

As far DS918+ goes, the card was not recognized when I plugged it in. Long story short, I had to redo the bootloader for RedPill TC and using the listmods option, TC found ixgbe ethernet plugged and added the driver for it. I rebooted and it worked! I also modified the synoinfo.conf to allow 4 ethernet cards. Everything is working!

On a side note, the ones I got do not come with a long profile metal bracket so I still have to find them. Right now, I'm not using any brackets. Also if you plug them into a x16 PCIe then you need to put some tape or just use the x8 PCIe slot on the motherboard.

 

 

 

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