Intel Dual Port 1000 MT NIC, only 1 NIC detected

Hi all,

We needed more NIC's in our ESX4 host so we bought an Intel Pro 1000 MT Dual port NIC. Booted the server but only 1 of the NICs detects (Port B). Am I missing something? The NIC was from Ebay but was plastic wrapped so we're assuming it was new as it looked new inside and all manuals and CD's were plastic wrapped as well. It detects as an Intel 82546EB. The server currently has an Onboard Broadcom and a PCI-X Broadcom GbE NIC.

Only 1 port is plugged in presently to a 48port Linksys GbE switch. Port B links ok at 1000MBps.

I was reading in another thread where an invalid checksum and MAC caused no detection at all but mine was a bit different.

Ouput of lspci:

root@vmserver ~# lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25d8 (rev b1)

00:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f7 (rev b1)

00:03.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25e3 (rev b1)

00:04.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f8 (rev b1)

00:05.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25e5 (rev b1)

00:06.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f9 (rev b1)

00:07.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25e7 (rev b1)

00:10.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f0 (rev b1)

00:10.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f0 (rev b1)

00:10.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f0 (rev b1)

00:11.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f1 (rev b1)

00:13.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f3 (rev b1)

00:15.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f5 (rev b1)

00:16.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 25f6 (rev b1)

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2690 (rev 09)

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2692 (rev 09)

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2688 (rev 09)

00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2689 (rev 09)

00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 268a (rev 09)

00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 268b (rev 09)

00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 268c (rev 09)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev d9)

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 2670 (rev 09)

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 631xESB/632xESB IDE Controller (rev 09)

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Unknown device 269b (rev 09)

01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3500 (rev 01)

01:00.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 350c (rev 01)

02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3510 (rev 01)

02:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Unknown device 3514 (rev 01)

03:00.0 RAID bus controller: Adaptec Adaptec Rocket (rev 02)

08:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)

08:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)

08:02.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5703 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)

1a:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 21)

1c:01.0 SCSI storage controller: Adaptec Compaq 64-Bit/66MHz Wide Ultra3 SCSI Adapter (rev 02)

1c:04.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Unknown device 515e (rev 02)

It appears as though the NIC is detected.

Output of lspci -v (just the Intel ethernet part):

08:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)

        Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Unknown device 00db

        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 20

        Memory at c8420000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

        Memory at c8440000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

        I/O ports at 4000

        Expansion ROM at c8100000

        Capabilities: Power Management version 2

        Capabilities: PCI-X non-bridge device

        Capabilities: Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

08:01.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82546EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) (rev 03)

        Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation Unknown device 00db

        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 21

        Memory at c8480000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable)

        I/O ports at 4040

        Capabilities: Power Management version 2

        Capabilities: PCI-X non-bridge device

        Capabilities: Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

The I/O parts area says disabled, WEIRD?

Dan

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