Mellanox 10gb driver?

Mark Saad nonesuch at longcount.org
Fri Aug 29 13:29:12 UTC 2014


> On Aug 29, 2014, at 2:37 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> 
> hi all,
> I managed to have the card recognised, now working is a different story :-)
> It sort of works, the console is full of:
> 
> <6>mlx4_en: mlxen0: Link Up
> <6>mlx4_en: mlxen0: Link Up
> <6>mlx4_en: mlxen0: Link Up
> ...
> 
> killing dhclient got rid of that.
> 
> maybe the fact that my card is an ‘engineering sample’  have any thing to do?
> without dhclient, and not diskless it seems to be doing ok.
> also, I can’t get it working with a 15m Twinax
> 

I ran into an issue with intel 10gb cards where the twinax cables from Cisco would not work with the intel nics .  You issue could be related , double check the twinax cables are supported . Truth be told it's the integrated sfp+ that is the issue .

--
Mark saad | mark.saad at longcount.org  

> cheers,
>    danny
> 
>> On Aug 16, 2014, at 11:36 AM, Daniel Braniss <danny at cs.huji.ac.il> wrote:
>> snipped ...
>> 
>> I solved the puzzle!
>> added
>>    options OFED
>>    device mlxen
>>    device mlx4ib
>>    device mthca
>> to my kernel config and that did it - not sure the last 2 are needed.
>> now to connect and check, but that will have to wait till tomorrow.
>> 
>> thanks,
>>    danny
>> 
>>> --HPS
>> 
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