[E1000-devel] Intel 82599EB and Finisar FTLX8571D3BCL - unsupported SFP+ module type?

[Peter v. H. <pv...@sa...>]

Hi there

I'm trying to get an Intel 82599EB to work with Ubuntu 11.10. The 10 Gb
Ethernet SFP+ module in this unit is a Dell N743D, which appears to be a
re-branded Finisar FTLX8571D3BCL. According to the ixgbe documentation,
the driver has been tested with this SFP+ module, but on modprobe, I get
the message:

failed to load because an unsupported SFP+ module type was detected.

This is using the latest stable release of ixgbe (version 3.8.21). Does
anyone have any ideas where to go from here? Has anyone got this
combination of hardware working? Are there any options that can be set
to address the problem?

Thanks,
Peter