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@george1421 Okay sounds good. I am checking this page frequently so if you need more from me just let me know!

@george1421 Hello!

I wanted to check in on this post to see if there was an update.

@george1421 Any update?

@george1421

So you are sure that this same computer from this same network jack it was moving at 10-22MB/minute ?

Yes I have not moved it from the last time I tried to image it. We have a few others of the same model we attempted to image from different drops in different rooms. All of them had the same result.

Does this target computer have at least 4GB of ram?

Yes, I believe it has 8.

This is the same exact image as you are sending to other lenovo computers, just this model is having the speed issue consuming your standard image?

Yes we use the same image for all of our Lenovo machines because it has never given us problems to do so.

I want to keep this configuration on this target system, but it would be interesting to know what version of partclone your version of FOG is using. This number would be visible on the blue partclone screen. It would be a number like 0.3.13 . Maybe you could find out what version using a different computer. Its not vitally important to know now, but the underlying subsystems seem to be working as it should. The next tests are NFS file transfer and then decompression and partclone.

It looks like the version of Partclone being used is Partclone v0.3.13 like you said.

@george1421

That is also what I assumed it would be. I am surprised it isn’t that causing the issue.

I installed iperf3 on the server without any errors.
With the command:

sudo iperf3 -s

Resulted in:

-----------------------------------------------------------
Server listening on xxxx
-----------------------------------------------------------

I went to the target machine and ran:

iperf3 -c <fog_server_ip>

Target machine results:

Accepted connection from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, port xxxx
[  5] local xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xxxx connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xxxx
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate	Retr	Cwnd
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   112 MBytes   918 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   110 MBytes   930 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   111 MBytes   931 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   112 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
[  5]  10.00-10.00  sec  1.12 MBytes   898 Mbits/sec 	0	413 KBytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.09 GBytes   933 Mbits/sec                  sender
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.08 GBytes   931 Mbits/sec                  receiver

Results on Server:

Accepted connection from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, port xxxx
[  5] local xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xxxx connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xxxx
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-1.00   sec   109 MBytes   918 Mbits/sec
[  5]   1.00-2.00   sec   111 MBytes   930 Mbits/sec
[  5]   2.00-3.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec
[  5]   3.00-4.00   sec   111 MBytes   929 Mbits/sec
[  5]   4.00-5.00   sec   111 MBytes   931 Mbits/sec
[  5]   5.00-6.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec
[  5]   6.00-7.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec
[  5]   7.00-8.00   sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec
[  5]   8.00-9.00   sec   111 MBytes   935 Mbits/sec
[  5]   9.00-10.00  sec   111 MBytes   934 Mbits/sec
[  5]  10.00-10.01  sec  1.05 MBytes   898 Mbits/sec
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec  1.08 GBytes   931 Mbits/sec                  receiver

@george1421 said in No network interface found! Kernel might not have the correct driver! Lenovo T14 Gen 2.:

fidsk /dev/nvme0n1

Okay sorry for the delay in response. I had to leave work yesterday. Here is the results of the last sesh.

It seems that all the fdisk commands worked, I was able to delete all the partitions and then create 1.

When doing the command:

fidsk /dev/nvme0n1

Results:

nke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesysten with 124866880 4k blocks and 31219712 inodes
Filesysten UUID: 5652bad-814c-4a2d-811a-fd5fb50a6dc4
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Now after that I noticed that you crossed out the other command for mounting so I assumed you wanted me to use the command:

mount /dev/nvme0n1p1 /ntfs

Results:

//there was no output so I assumed it mounted since there wasn't an error

With that I went back to earlier replies and did this command:

touch /ntfs/bob.txt

Result:

//no output

After that I went to see if the partition is connected:

df -h

Result:

Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 248M 97M 139M 42% /
/dev/nvme0n1p1 477G 26G 452G 6% /ntfs

I assumed that is what we wanted to see, so I continued to this command:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/ntfs/test1.img bs=1G count=1 oflag=direct

Result:

1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0GiB) copied, 0.546232 s, 2.0 GB/s

Interestingly fast. I was assuming it wouldn’t be. Does this provide any insight?

@george1421

What I see from that command is below:

df -h

Result:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 248M 97M 139M 42% /
/dev/nvme0n1p3 477G 26G 452G 6% /ntfs

So It looks like it was mounted so I did that:

umount /ntfs

Result:

//no output

Command:

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/nvme0n1p3 

Result:

nke2fs 1.45.6 (20-Mar-2020)
/dev/numeOn1p3 contains a ntfs file system
Proceed anyway? (y.N) y
Discarding device blocks: done
Creating filesysten with 124866880 4k blocks and 31219712 inodes
Filesysten UUID: 5652bad-814c-4a2d-811a-fd5fb50a6dc4
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
102400000
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (262144 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

Now I did that and then tried to mount by the command suggested earlier:

ntfs-3g -o force,rw  /dev/nvme0n1p3  /ntfs

and that resulted in:

NTFS signature is missing.
Failed to mount 'dev/nvme0n1p3': Invalid argument
The device '/dev/nvme0n1p3' doesn't seem to have a valid NTFS.
Maybe the wrong device is used? Or the whole disk instead of a
partition (e.g. /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1)? Or the other way around?

Did I miss a step? I thought That I didn’t but I believe I did. was I supposed to also make /ntfs an EXT4 filesystem? Please advise when you can. Thanks for your help so far.

As far as your other questions, FOS shows iperf3 being stored in /usr/bin/iperf3. The fog server host OS is currently Ubuntu 20.10, screenshot provided below:

I am aware that there are newer ubuntu releases available, but I have been advised not to upgrade to them. Could that be the issue we are having? Thanks again!

@george1421

I should thank you for sticking with ME. So… thank you

May have gotten ahead of myself and accidentally messed it up but this is what resulted of:

ntfs-3g -o force,rw /dev/nvme0n1p3 /ntfs

I have resorted to pictures. I got tired of copy pasting lol

@george1421 said in No network interface found! Kernel might not have the correct driver! Lenovo T14 Gen 2.:

mkdir /ntfs
mount /dev/nume0n1p3 /ntfs
ls /ntfs

I tried those commands and this is what it resulted in:

mkdir /ntfs

//no output

Command:

mount /dev/nvme0n1p3 /ntfs
//I mistyped earlier. nvme is the correct spelling. Apologies

Result:

/dev/nvme0n1p3: Can't open blockdev
/dev/nvme0n1p3: Can't open blockdev
mount: mounting /dev/nvme0n1p3 on /ntfs failed: device or resource busy

Command:

ls /ntfs

Results:

'$Recycle Bin' 'Document and Setting' DumpStack.log.tmp Intel PerfLogs  'Program Files' 'Program Files x86' ProgramData Recovery 'System Volume Information' Users Windows hiberfil.sys pagefile.sys swapfile.sys

not sure if /dev/nvme0n1p3 is supposed to me there.

@george1421 said in No network interface found! Kernel might not have the correct driver! Lenovo T14 Gen 2.:
Okay so imaging with two different USBs did not change anything. still was imaging at 11-20 mb/min.

This is what happened with the debugging task:
Command:

lspci -nn | grep -i net

Results:

00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:15fc] (rev 20)
09:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Device [8086:2725] (rev 1a)

Command:

ip a s

Results:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP ,LOWER _UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

2: emp0s31f6: (BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 84:a9:38:7a:3f:e6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
net xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx brdxxx.xxx.xxx.xxx scope global empOs31f6
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

Command:

lsblk

Results:

NAME MAT:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
nume0n1 259:0 0 4776 0 disk
|-nume0n1p1 259:1 0 100M 0 part
|-nume0n1p2 259:2 0 16M 0 part
|-nume0n1p3 259:3 0 476.3G 0 part
`-nume0n1p4 259:4 0 508M 0 part

and lastly Command:

grep -i firmware /var/log/messages
//when the path was /var/log/syslog, is said that there was no such file or directory.

Results:

Dec 28 12:54:37 fogclient user.notice kernel: ACPI: [Firmware Bug]: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
Dec 28 12:54:37 fogclient user.info kernel: psmouse serio2: trackpoint: Elan TrackPoint firmuare: 0x12, buttons: 3/3

Not sure what to take from that but that is what happened with those commands

@george1421

I will try both of those and report back.

Currently we have 1.5.9 installed for FOG. At least that it* what is says. Screenshot provided:

I also suspected that the firmware was not up to date, so I checked and the firmware version was from 10-08-2021. I updated the firmware to the latest version and the issue still persisted. I imaged a Lenovo ThinkCentre and yesterday we could image a P14 just fine so it seems to be just the T14 Gen 2.

Currently a Intel core i5 is installed. Standby for debug info. Thanks!

@george1421 Sorry I haven’t responded. I left work literally minutes before you commented.

I checked the BIOS and UEFI setup pages and could not find a setting referring to VMD. I tried looking on the internet to see if I maybe missing something and couldn’t find anything on that setting for thinkpads.

Please advise on next steps when you can. Thanks!

Ref: Kernel is missing the correct driver

So I did the steps in this to manually download the Kernel updates and that fixed the Kernel version in the bzimage file.

That said, now when I go to deploy the image to the T14 Gen 2, it goes incredibly slow. Use to, the rate would be about 10 gb/min (give or take), now it is going at 11-20 mb/min and says that it will take about 56 hours to finish.

I checked the server’s nic to make sure it is set to 10gbs/second at full duplex. Ensured that the port it is connected to is allowing the same speeds. Is there anything that I am missing?

I don’t have a different machine to try and see if it works. Let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

I have also tried using a different managed switch between the machine and the box.

I have made sure that the patch cable is good and functional, even trying several different ones to make sure that it is not the patch cable.

I should notate the the CPU is an Intel Core i5
the architecture is x65

If any more information is needed please let me know. Thank you!

Re: Dell Latitude 5510 No network interface found! Kernel might not have the correct driver!

Also Re: Lenovo ThinkPad P15 & T15 No network interface found! Kernel might not have the correct driver!

Hello!

I have been able to image lenovo machines ranging from thinkcentres and thinkpads. I have also been able to image Thinkpads ranging from T480s to P14s.

The only issue machine I am having is a T14 Gen 2. I have done everything from updating kernels through FOG, kernels through Linux, BIOS/UEFI updates for the machines themselves. I have tried everything in the linked pages.

One thing that I am seeing that could be the issue is that when I do the commands:

cd /var/www/fog/service/ipxe/
file bzImage

It shows the following output.

bzImage: Linux kernel x86 boot executable bzImage, version 4.19.145 (sebastian@Tollana) #1 SMP Sun Sep 13 05:35:01 CDT 2020, RO-rootFS, swap_dev 0x8, Normal VGA

It shows the same thing for the bzImage32 file. I know it should be updated to the 5.10.71, and I thought I took the steps to do that. Can you please highlight the steps to update it. Thank you