sfp+ ethernet

Introduction

This is getting 10GbE working on a relatively old computer

2020-W52-1

Setup

Asus 10G SFP+ NIC (XG-C100F)

Dell Inspiron 3647 (i3-4170) running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Steps

1. download repository: https://github.com/Aquantia/AQtion
2. follow instructions per README
1. installed dkms per https://community.clearlinux.org/t/how-can-install-asus-10gb-ethernet-driver/4362/4
3. install ethtool
4. read out data

user@user-510-p136:~/AQtion-master$ ethtool enp1s0

Settings for enp1s0:

Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]

Supported link modes:   100baseT/Full 

                        1000baseT/Full 

                        10000baseT/Full 

                        2500baseT/Full 

                        5000baseT/Full 

Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only

Supports auto-negotiation: Yes

Supported FEC modes: Not reported

Advertised link modes:  100baseT/Full 

                        1000baseT/Full 

                        10000baseT/Full 

                        2500baseT/Full 

                        5000baseT/Full 

Advertised pause frame use: No

Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes

Advertised FEC modes: Not reported

Speed: Unknown!

Duplex: Unknown! (255)

Port: FIBRE

PHYAD: 0

Transceiver: internal

Auto-negotiation: on

Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: Operation not permitted

Current message level: 0x00000005 (5)

       drv link

Link detected: no

        5. update settings per https://phoenixnap.com/kb/ethtool-command-change-speed-duplex-ethernet-card-linux

user@user-510-p136:~$ sudo ethtool -s enp1s0 speed 10000 duplex full autoneg off

Notes:

1. originally instructed to download drivers from Asus website https://www.asus.com/Networking-IoT-Servers/Wired-Networking/All-series/XG-C100F/HelpDesk_Download/

but found that original drivers could never finish due to this error:

~/aquantia/Linux-200/aq_compat.h:101:12: error: ‘struct sk_buff’ has no member named ‘xmit_more’

  101 |  return skb->xmit_more;

2. originally thought that I was missing 10GbaseT, but it was just because I expected it to be in numerical sort, vs alphabetical sort. See highlight