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bnx2x fails to load firmware on Dell R430

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    george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
    last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 12:00 AM

    @Tom-Elliott said in bnx2x fails to load firmware on Dell R430:

    You mind rerunning the installer? I’ve added the missing firmware to the kernel build.

    So does that bring the current kernel to 4.7.4? Just for my knowledge.

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      Tom Elliott @george1421
      last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 12:01 AM

      @george1421 No, it is the version of the current kernel (4.7.3) as on kernel.org

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        george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
        last edited by george1421 Sep 15, 2016, 6:02 PM Sep 16, 2016, 12:02 AM

        @Tom-Elliott Understood, thx.

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          grey @Tom Elliott
          last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 12:16 AM

          @Tom-Elliott said in bnx2x fails to load firmware on Dell R430:

          You mind rerunning the installer? I’ve added the missing firmware to the kernel build.

          ok, re-installed fog rebooted on the new kernel, drivers loaded fine but all drivers say there is no link, although its running on a pxe kernel :-p. all the firmware errors are gone. I’m running out of time here today, but I’ll jump into tomorrow and see what the link issue is about. the debug kernel selection is still loading by default so i guess it will do that until i delete the task.

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            Tom Elliott @grey
            last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 12:22 AM

            @grey The phandle messages are non-impacting, and you can probably turn back down the loglevel. The drivers with no link simply means the kernel can’t find a corresponding device for the driver being loaded.

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              george1421 Moderator @grey
              last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 12:27 AM

              @grey Correct it will stay in debug capture until the capture completes or you cancel the task. its kind of handy for debugging your hardware.

              As for the no link issue I would go back to the error logs on the FOS client. Also the lspci command (one of the switches) should show what kernel driver is managing which device.

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                Sebastian Roth Moderator
                last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 6:06 AM

                @grey said:

                ok, re-installed fog rebooted on the new kernel, drivers loaded fine but all drivers say there is no link, although its running on a pxe kernel :-p.

                As we can see from your earlier posts you have four NICs in that one server. Which one is connected and how often do you see the message “no link”??

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                  grey @Sebastian Roth
                  last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 8:39 PM

                  @Sebastian-Roth

                  ok PNX2X is the fiber ports so we can disregard them, oddly they where enumerated first so thats part of the problem as i thought the ethernet ports would be first, the TG3 driver is the ethernet port and the ones we are interested in. eth5 is the port thats active and does have link, although its not getting a DHCP assigment ( statically assigned to that mac ), even though at pexe boot it is.

                  Settings for eth1: PNX2X
                  Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
                  Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
                  10000baseT/Full
                  Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
                  Supports auto-negotiation: No
                  Advertised link modes: 10000baseT/Full
                  Advertised pause frame use: No
                  Advertised auto-negotiation: No
                  Speed: Unknown!
                  Duplex: Unknown! (255)
                  Port: FIBRE
                  PHYAD: 1
                  Transceiver: internal
                  Auto-negotiation: off
                  Supports Wake-on: g
                  Wake-on: d
                  Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

                  Link detected: no
                  

                  Settings for eth2:PNX2X
                  Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
                  Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
                  10000baseT/Full
                  Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
                  Supports auto-negotiation: No
                  Advertised link modes: 10000baseT/Full
                  Advertised pause frame use: No
                  Advertised auto-negotiation: No
                  Speed: Unknown!
                  Duplex: Unknown! (255)
                  Port: FIBRE
                  PHYAD: 1
                  Transceiver: internal
                  Auto-negotiation: off
                  Supports Wake-on: g
                  Wake-on: d
                  Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

                  Link detected: no
                  

                  Settings for eth3:PNX2X
                  Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
                  Supported link modes: 1000baseT/Full
                  10000baseT/Full
                  Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
                  Supports auto-negotiation: No
                  Advertised link modes: 10000baseT/Full
                  Advertised pause frame use: No
                  Advertised auto-negotiation: No
                  Speed: Unknown!
                  Duplex: Unknown! (255)
                  Port: FIBRE
                  PHYAD: 1
                  Transceiver: internal
                  Auto-negotiation: off
                  Supports Wake-on: g
                  Wake-on: d
                  Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

                  Link detected: no
                  

                  Settings for eth4:
                  Supported ports: [ TP ]
                  Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Supported pause frame use: No
                  Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
                  Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Speed: Unknown!
                  Duplex: Unknown! (255)
                  Port: Twisted Pair
                  PHYAD: 1
                  Transceiver: internal
                  Auto-negotiation: on
                  MDI-X: Unknown
                  Supports Wake-on: g
                  Wake-on: d
                  Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
                  drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
                  Link detected: no


                  Settings for eth5:
                  Supported ports: [ TP ]
                  Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Supported pause frame use: No
                  Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
                  Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Full
                  Link partner advertised pause frame use: No
                  Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Speed: 1000Mb/s
                  Duplex: Full
                  Port: Twisted Pair
                  PHYAD: 2
                  Transceiver: internal
                  Auto-negotiation: on
                  MDI-X: off
                  Supports Wake-on: g
                  Wake-on: d
                  Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
                  drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
                  Link detected: yes


                  Settings for eth6:
                  Supported ports: [ TP ]
                  Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Supported pause frame use: No
                  Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
                  Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Speed: Unknown!
                  Duplex: Unknown! (255)
                  Port: Twisted Pair
                  PHYAD: 1
                  Transceiver: internal
                  Auto-negotiation: on
                  MDI-X: Unknown
                  Supports Wake-on: g
                  Wake-on: d
                  Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
                  drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
                  Link detected: no


                  Settings for eth7:
                  Supported ports: [ TP ]
                  Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Supported pause frame use: No
                  Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                  100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
                  1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full
                  Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
                  Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
                  Speed: Unknown!
                  Duplex: Unknown! (255)
                  Port: Twisted Pair
                  PHYAD: 2
                  Transceiver: internal
                  Auto-negotiation: on
                  MDI-X: Unknown
                  Supports Wake-on: g
                  Wake-on: d
                  Current message level: 0x000000ff (255)
                  drv probe link timer ifdown ifup rx_err tx_err
                  Link detected: no

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                    george1421 Moderator
                    last edited by george1421 Sep 16, 2016, 3:12 PM Sep 16, 2016, 9:11 PM

                    OK this is good promising news. eth5 is getting a link up but no IP address in FOS but you can pxe boot and iPXE is getting an IP address because the FOS kernel (bzImage) and VHD (init.xz) are being sent to the target computer. When we see this we typically see that spanning tree is turned on at the network switch. Spanning tree takes about 27 seconds for the port to start forwarding data. The FOS engine is so fast that it has already given up by the time spanning tree starts to forward data.

                    On these ports you need to enable one of the fast spanning tree prototocols (port fast, fast stp, rstp, or what ever your switch mfg calls it). A quick check to see if its a spanning tree issue is to put an unmanaged switch between the building switch and the target computer. This unmanaged switch keeps the port on the building switch from winking as the iPXE kernel hands off the network interface to the FOS engine.

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                      grey @george1421
                      last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 9:27 PM

                      @george1421 said in bnx2x fails to load firmware on Dell R430:

                      OK this is good promising news. eth5 is getting a link up but no IP address in FOS but you can pxe boot and iPXE is getting an IP address because the FOS kernel (bzImage) and VHD (init.xz) are being sent to the target computer. When we see this we typically see that spanning tree is turned on at the network switch. Spanning tree takes about 27 seconds for the port to start forwarding data. The FOS engine is so fast that it has already given up by the time spanning tree starts to forward data.

                      On these ports you need to enable one of the fast spanning tree prototocols (port fast, fast stp, rstp, or what ever your switch mfg calls it). A quick check to see if its a spanning tree issue is to put an unmanaged switch between the building switch and the target computer. This unmanaged switch keeps the port on the building switch from winking as the iPXE kernel hands off the network interface to the FOS engine.

                      its a cisco so its port fast, i’ll check right now,

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                        george1421 Moderator
                        last edited by george1421 Sep 16, 2016, 3:33 PM Sep 16, 2016, 9:33 PM

                        Also pondering this a bit more since your first (usable) interface is eth5 I can see another issue.

                        @Developers Does the FOS engine stop enumerating the network adapter at eth1 or will it keep going until it finds a network adapter with a link up state to use? OR Is there a kernel parameter we can pass that says to use ethX as the FOS network interface?

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                          Tom Elliott @george1421
                          last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 9:33 PM

                          @george1421 It tries everything until it finds a link up I believe.

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                            george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
                            last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 9:35 PM

                            @Tom-Elliott said in bnx2x fails to load firmware on Dell R430:

                            @george1421 It tries everything until it finds a link up I believe.

                            Great, I have never tried. But I just thought I can test this by creating a vm with 6 network adapters with eth5 being the only one connected. But I’m not sure if I can have it defined but not having the link up. I may have to play in my test lab later tonight.

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                              Tom Elliott @george1421
                              last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 9:36 PM

                              @george1421 Well it goes a bit further, if a link is up, but fails to get an ip, it will continue on as well, I believe.

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                                george1421 Moderator @Tom Elliott
                                last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 9:37 PM

                                @Tom-Elliott That one I can test by setting the interface to a vlan without a dhcp server. I will prove that one out for sure. The other one I’m not sure if I can have a “unplugged” interface but have it appear in linux with ESXi.

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                                  grey @Tom Elliott
                                  last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 10:17 PM

                                  @Tom-Elliott said in bnx2x fails to load firmware on Dell R430:

                                  @george1421 Well it goes a bit further, if a link is up, but fails to get an ip, it will continue on as well, I believe.

                                  Networking works!

                                  I can confirm that, mine runs through interfaces 1-5 and now now acquires a IP!, i’m unsure if there is a arbitrary limit. when 5 was failing to get DHCP it also tried 6 and 7. Toms fix on the firmware of the drivers and Georges portfast suggestion solved the last of my network issues. Unfortunately I won’t have access to the servers for a week or so, but once they get back i’ll see how the imaging goes. at this point it should work as the rest is similar to my older servers setup the same way.

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                                    grey @grey
                                    last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 10:19 PM

                                    @grey

                                    oh btw, thanks tons guys for all your help

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                                      george1421 Moderator @grey
                                      last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 10:23 PM

                                      @grey Before you loose access to this server pxe boot it again and run the compatibility test from the FOG iPXE menu. I’m interested to see if both networking and storage passes (you will be too).

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                                        grey @george1421
                                        last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 10:25 PM

                                        @george1421

                                        I will do that as soon as the servers return, they are all out with customers now and I have no access.

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                                          Tom Elliott @george1421
                                          last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 10:45 PM

                                          @george1421 I’m fairly sure they will both pass.

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