Intel Ethernet/LAN Drivers

Still not completely understandable for me…

If I present the ‘update driver’ dialogue with the complete Winx64 folder it chooses the Win11 drivers all the time.

That doesn’t work well for 2016 Server essentials (1607 - i210 x2) - functioning fine just until next reboot, then it’s error 37 and no network.

But it does work for a Windows 10 21H2 i219LM, 12.19.2.45 is functioning without any problems??

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Complete Pack - Windows 7 > Not working on Intel(R) Ethernet Connection (12) I219-V

12.19.2.45 made the profile Numastatic and you cant change it. Also i found information that didn’t know.
The numberofrecievequeues is always 1 on all drivers and this is the reason:

The Intel® Ethernet Connection 82579, I217, I218, and I219 Network Adapter Families provide support for Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for up to 2 receive queues. This feature allows incoming network traffic to be processed in multiple queues and provides greater receive efficiency.

Because of the internal architecture of these Intel® Ethernet Network Connection families, they do not support Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI-X).
Message Signaled Interrupts are required to allow separate receive queues to be processed by separate CPU cores.

The Intel® Ethernet Connection 82579, I217, I218, and I219 Network Adapters’ multiple receive queues are thus handled by a single CPU core. This prevents the use of these network connections in SMB-Multichannel configurations.

Other Intel® networking products, including the Intel® I210 Gigabit Network Connection, do support MSI-X and can be used in SMB-Multichannel configurations.

-Intel | Data Center Solutions, IoT, and PC Innovation

And this is problem???or something?

In reality it does not support rss and uses one core to make all the processing. When an intel ct that is 15 years old card uses two cores and a tp link tg-3468 with realtek chip 4 cores.

on oldest drivers 12.19.1.37 you have settings rss queues and stuff like that on 12.19.2.45 does not maybe i will go to oldest driver @boombastik

@panosxidis no its not because even with old drivers the indirection table is empty.
See a proper card with proper rss suport below in pic.

yeap i know i have 2 adapters one intel i219v and Aquantia 10g he has 8ueues but i dont know i feel wait better on gaming expierence with i219v with latest driver,i see you have i218v try to install 12.18.1.37v3 on old winraid forum and see

and why you need rss queues to much?

How do I make the driver for i211 work on Server 2022?

My device is VEN_8086&DEV_1539

Anyone know how to flash the i225-V intel lan firmware? Found firmware update package on Station-Drivers but theres no real instructions on how to flash.

Thanks

Any driver for the I226 adapter I know you can force the l225 driver but is there a pure I226 driver?

A post was merged into an existing topic: EFI LAN BIOS + Intel GopDriver modules

Intel has released today (08/05/2023) a new complete Ethernet driverpack v28.2 (LINK), which contains some interesting updated Ethernet PRO1000 drivers for Intel’s i210-i211 and i217-i219 Ethernet adapters.
Since the complete driverpack has a very big size (777 MB), I attach here just the links to the latest “pure” Intel Ethernet drivers for Win10-11 x64:
64bit Intel I210-I211 Ethernet driver v13.0.16.0 WHQL for Win11 x64 (dated 07/11/2023)
64bit Intel i217-i219 Ethernet driver v12.19.2.55 WHQL for Win10-11 x64 (dated 07/04/2023)

Enjoy it!

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I217V in Win Server 2008 R2?
Win7 drivers for win server 2008 R2 are not working.
Any idea?

@Jean78
>Here< I have found something, which may help you to solve your problem.
Good luck!
Sorry for my late reply.

Did you find the i226 driver?

I have I225-V onboard and would like to
Enable RSS and RDMA.

Unfortunately it is not active in the driver.
Found this here:

Can someone help me make a MOD driver to activate this?

Thanks
Best regards

Use the driver I225 1.1.3.28.
The others don’t support rss and also the new driver from realtek also nics don’t support it.
This is something to do with e cores and p-cores incompatibility so they disabled it.