Physically viewing the rear of the RP-S500 appliance show that ports for the NIC in Slot 1 have link and activity LEDs:
However, issuing the verify-hardware CLI command shows "no link" for these same ports.
Only SYS:MGMT (0:0) displays a link:
Support for the NIC that ships by default in Slot 1 on the RP-S500 has been added to Reporter 10.1.5.1 or later.