em(4): 4-port Intel Pro/1000 PF card not detected
Charles Owens
cowens at greatbaysoftware.com
Tue Nov 16 00:37:24 UTC 2010
The appliance is in a 1U form-factor with just a single riser-based slot
(PCIe 2.0).
Thanks for your help with this,
Charles
On 11/15/10 6:14 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
> The way you talked about this at first made me think this was
> something new, but its actually
> fairly old, its just a quad port 82571, id is 0x10A5, support has been
> in the drivers for ages :)
>
> The issue is the hardware not the OS or driver, even if the
> motherboard is PCIE 2.0, does it
> not have slots that are 1 ?
>
> For server adapters you might consider going 82576 or 82580.
>
> Jack
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Charles Owens
> <cowens at greatbaysoftware.com <mailto:cowens at greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote:
>
> Well, I believe we have an answer:
>
> http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/sb/CS-030873.htm
>
> The motherboard definitely is PCIe 2.0 . The page suggests these
> cards for use with a PCIe2.0 system:
>
> # Intel® PRO/1000 PT Quad Port LP Server Adapter (P/N EXPI9404PTL)
> # Intel® Gigabit ET Quad Port Server Adapter (P/N E1G44ET)
> # Intel® Gigabit ET2 Quad Port Server Adapter (P/N E1G44ET2)
>
>
> Notably there's not a PF option shown, so we're going to have to
> think about that. But in any case, do you think these models
> will function with 8.0? 8.0 plus a patch? .... or is 8.1 the
> only option?
>
> Thanks,
> Charles
>
>
> On 11/15/10 4:58 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
>> Well, if the system doesnt show the hardware in a PCI scan there
>> isn't much my driver can do :)
>>
>> The last line in your log says 'eth0', what's that about?
>>
>> You could try booting 8.1 64 bit, you can also send me all the
>> details about the board, just to
>> make sure I can get the exact one and then I'll try it here. This
>> is quad port fiber, right? I was
>> thinking this was PCI ID 0x1527, 82580 adapter. The support is
>> in HEAD now.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Charles Owens
>> <cowens at greatbaysoftware.com
>> <mailto:cowens at greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Jack, I'm afraid that with the card _not_ installed we get
>> identical pciconf output. We're running 32 bit simply
>> because that's where we got rolling with our product, and
>> have not yet made the call to invest in the effort required
>> to make the jump to 64. Do you think that our being at 32
>> bit could be a factor here?
>>
>> So far the same card model has been tested on several of
>> these server appliances, so I doubt it's a bad-slot situation.
>>
>> In case it's helpful, I've attached a boot log. Anything
>> else that I can provide that might help?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Charles
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/15/10 3:23 PM, Jack Vogel wrote:
>>
>> UH, did you do that with the adapter in the system?? I do
>> not see the ID I
>> expected
>> to see. Some reason you're running 32 bit??
>>
>> Can you run the pciconf with the adapter in and out,
>> compare and tell me
>> what its
>> ID is? All the unidentified devices I see are in the
>> 0x3XXX range and those
>> are not
>> network devices.
>>
>> Maybe its a bad slot?
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Charles
>> Owens<cowens at greatbaysoftware.com
>> <mailto:cowens at greatbaysoftware.com>
>>
>> wrote:
>> Great... thanks! Please see attached. BTW, the
>> system is running
>> 8.0-RELEASE-p2 i386 (PAE).
>>
>>
>> Charles
>>
>>
>>
>> On 11/13/10 2:24 AM, Jack Vogel wrote:
>>
>> pciconf -l please, I'll betcha these are the new quad
>> ports that are in my
>> next igb driver
>> update, it would have gone in already but I've been
>> fighting a bug in the
>> header split
>> code.
>>
>> Show me what the output looks like, and I'll get ya
>> fixed up, dont worry :)
>>
>> Jack
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Charles Owens<
>> cowens at greatbaysoftware.com
>> <mailto:cowens at greatbaysoftware.com>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We're trying to work with newly purcharsed Intel
>> EXPi9404PF NICs ("Intel
>> PRO/1000 PF Quad Port Server Adapter") but they
>> do not seem to be detected
>> (no ports showing with 'ifconfig -l'). We're
>> having no problems with the
>> 2-port version of the same card -- is there a
>> known issue with the 4-port
>> version?
>>
>> We've tried three different cards of this model,
>> all with same result.
>> Thanks in advance for any help.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> --
>> Charles Owens
>> Great Bay Software, Inc.
>>
>>
>>
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