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PSA: Intel I226-V 2.5GbE on Raptor Lake Motherboards Has a Connection Drop Issue: No Fix Available

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Which means it's likely not a hardware problem.
Or FreeBSD just has a more effective work around Intel refuses to implement in mainline drivers for whatever reason. Either way, hardware errata exists. That's already been established.
 
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Supposedly they finally fixed everything with these drivers: Windows 11 driver to 2.1.3.15 or Windows 10 driver to 1.1.4.42 and sounds like there may be a motherboard/firmware update as well, but I didn't see it on vendor sites.

I'd still love to know what part was the issue because the windows drivers are significantly more featured than *nix (so there's a lot more to go wrong) and even then not everyone on windows was seeing the issues. I know I certainly didn't while I had windows running, but that system was also hooked up directly to one of my router box i226s so it wasn't going through a switch/router.
 
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Or FreeBSD just has a more effective work around Intel refuses to implement in mainline drivers for whatever reason. Either way, hardware errata exists. That's already been established.

As mentioned above, the most likely explanation is that FreeBSD simply lacks those power management features that presumably cause the problems on Windows.

In any case, the FreeBSD driver is open source, so it could be ported as an alternative driver to Windows.
 
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Supposedly they finally fixed everything with these drivers: Windows 11 driver to 2.1.3.15 or Windows 10 driver to 1.1.4.42 and sounds like there may be a motherboard/firmware update as well, but I didn't see it on vendor sites.

I'd still love to know what part was the issue because the windows drivers are significantly more featured than *nix (so there's a lot more to go wrong) and even then not everyone on windows was seeing the issues. I know I certainly didn't while I had windows running, but that system was also hooked up directly to one of my router box i226s so it wasn't going through a switch/router.

Any idea where to get 1.1.4.42 from? after a while searching I managed to find 1.1.4.38, Intel seem to be hiding the Windows 10 specific drivers now and interestingly is none on WU.
 
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Any idea where to get 1.1.4.42 from? after a while searching I managed to find 1.1.4.38, Intel seem to be hiding the Windows 10 specific drivers now and interestingly is none on WU.
Should be on your mobo support site. I just checked on MSI and it shows that driver for Win 10.
 
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Any idea where to get 1.1.4.42 from? after a while searching I managed to find 1.1.4.38, Intel seem to be hiding the Windows 10 specific drivers now and interestingly is none on WU.
The 28.3 driver pack has that driver version, but it doesn't list the i226-V so I'm not sure whether it's covered or not. Check the date of the driver release on your motherboard OEM and if it's late last year it might be correct whether it cites the right version or not.
 
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Should be on your mobo support site. I just checked on MSI and it shows that driver for Win 10.
I am using it on a NUC sourced from china. :)

I will grab from MSI then thanks and add to my ISO.
 
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