---
title: "Management NIC Firmware Upgrade"
slug: "maintenance-upgrade-management-nic-firmware"
updated: 2024-12-14T10:36:06Z
published: 2024-12-14T10:36:06Z
canonical: "docs.fmad.io/maintenance-upgrade-management-nic-firmware"
---

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# Management NIC Firmware Upgrade

To update the NIC firmware, need to boot the UEFI shell. There are quite a steps but its a straight forward process.

### Step 1) extract the firmware image

```plaintext
cd /opt/fmadio/firmware/intel_e810/
unzip  E810_NVMUpdatePackage_v4_60_EFI.zip
```

Example shown below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(63).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)

### Step 2) Copy to boot partition

Copy the updater to the system boot partition

```plaintext
sudo mkdir /mnt/system/EFI/intel_nic
sudo cp -R E810/EFI2x64/ /mnt/system/EFI/intel_nic/E810_v4_60
```

Confirm the files are on the boot partition

```plaintext
ls -al /mnt/system/EFI/intel_nic/E810_v4_60
```

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(64).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)

### Step 3) Reboot the system

```plaintext
sudo reboot
```

Need to keep the KVM active to catch the UEFI boot shell. Sometimes the BMC will close/stall the HTML KVM while its booting. Keep rebooting until can catch the UEFI shell as described below

### Step 4) Boot to UEFI Shell

During the boot process need to catch the EFI boot shell.

Pres ESC while its booting (the time window is very small 5sec). This will when drop to the UEFI Prompt

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(58).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)

### Step 5) Run the firmware update program

```plaintext
fs0:
cd EFI
cd intel_nic
cd E810_v4_60
```

As shown below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(59).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)

### Step 6) run the update

Run the updater program

```plaintext
nvmupdate64e.efi
```

As shown below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(60).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)

It will start scanning

Select 1

Would you like to back up the NVM images → N

And it should looks like the image below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(57).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)

### Step 7) Reboot

Once it has completed, reboot the system using the GUI drop down

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(61).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)

### Step 8) Confirm firmware version

After the FMADIO has booted, confirm the firmware version is correct

Run the following command

```plaintext
sudo ethtool -i phy10
```

Confirm the version number matches per below

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b9aab0c4-36d0-4616-9673-30b661455571/Images/Documentation/image(62).png?sv=2026-02-06&spr=https&st=2026-11-13T20%3A18%3A41Z&se=2026-11-13T21%3A18%3A41Z&sr=c&sp=r&sig=gJzHP%2Br8hE%2B78eJFQR8G2lujX9I6Ae6OD03HQr6Gz08%3D)