Re: [Astlinux-users] Ethernet Driver

[<da...@ry...>]

Lonnie and All,

I had a few minutes to dig into this today.  Here's what I'm seeing: 
 
The errors spotted yesterday (see below) led me to compare the list of files shown by "modinfo bnx2" with those contained in /lib/firmware/bnx2/.  Sure enough, there are discrepancies in two of the five file names:
modinfo bnx2 file shows: bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
/lib/firmware/bnx2/ contains:  bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw
modinfo bnx2 file shows: bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw
/lib/firmware/bnx2/ contains:  bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw
 
The following three files were the SAME in both modinfo bnx2 and /lib/firmware/bnx2/:
bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw
bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw
bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw
 
The above comes from a working AstLinux version 1.3.0 that I can access remotely.  Unfortunately, I won't have access to the VM until tonight.  When I do, I'll check whether the error messages repeat (as suggested below) or list different file names that can't be loaded, as the above suggests.   
 
Dan
 
-----Original Message-----
From: da...@ry...
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:47pm
To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <ast...@li...>
Cc: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <ast...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Ethernet Driver



Hi Lonnie,
 
Thanks for the digging and research.  
 
After adding bnx2 to /etc/rc.modules and restarting AstLinux, there was an error "Direct firmware load failed with error -2." followed by "falling back to user helper" and then "can't load firmware file bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw"  This happened twice for each NIC.  After that and a series of "Sending discover..." messages, the network never came up. 
 
I need to step away from this for a little while right now but this is looking a little more hopeful than before.  Perhaps I'll have better fortune tomorrow when I can spend some time working on it.
 
Thanks,
 
Dan
 
-----Original Message-----
From: "Lonnie Abelbeck" <li...@lo...>
Sent: Monday, October 2, 2017 8:07pm
To: "AstLinux Users Mailing List" <ast...@li...>
Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Ethernet Driver



Hi Dan,

# ls -l /lib/modules/3.16.47-astlinux/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/
total 292
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 90248 Sep 23 15:14 bnx2.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 201184 Sep 23 15:14 tg3.ko

# modinfo bnx2 | grep '^description'
description: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5706/5708/5709/5716 Driver

So add "bnx2" to your /etc/rc.modules and give that a try.

Though getting an Intel PCIe NIC card is not a bad idea :-)

Lonnie



On Oct 2, 2017, at 5:39 PM, da...@ry... wrote:

> All,
> 
> I'm trying my hand at running AstLinux as a VM under Proxmox. My first effort used bridged Ethernet as detailed in the AstLinux Documentation, which appeared to work fine.
> 
> In the effort to pull defeat from the jaws of success, I subsequently changed the configuration to use PCI Passthrough and "directly" connect two NICs to AstLinux. In addition to improving host machine security, I hoped that this configuration might present a more sensible and consistent MAC address to my ISP's finicky modem. (I have to call them for an intervention whenever my MAC address changes.) 
> 
> Despite the fact that I don't know what I'm doing, the AstLinux VM is running and lspci shows both adapters. However, it doesn't appear to be loading a driver. Or, for whatever reason, AstLinux isn't seeing either NIC. 
> 
> The adapters are "Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)." At first I thought the tg3 (Broadcom) driver might be suitable so I added "tg3" to the modules.rc file. That didn't help. I've since seen that QLogic acquired this product line a few years ago, so perhaps tg3 no longer supports these products.
> 
> If necessary, I can drive to Micro Center on the way home from work and buy an Intel NIC. However, I'd rather use the hardware I have if possible. 
> 
> I'd appreciate your thoughts.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan




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