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Does PetaSan support bnx2 nic (dell r210)

Hello,

I create a test lab with 3 r210 with 2 disks with 500GB. I make the configuration fine, but when make the reboot all nic are down.

Look in the message log it's a information there is no driver for bnx2 nic. I try to access the server console with root, but only a blank screen are displayed (10s after the login prompt the screen become blank).

Best Regards, Cleber

The kernel driver is present, but it  likely requires extra firmware for it to load correctly. I will be checking this and if this is the case will see of we can include it in a next release.

If i understand correctly, you did use the installer on all 3 nodes, but when you rebooted, was not able to connect via the web deployment ui, correct ?

Also it will help me if you can do the following and let me know the what you get:

First you need to hack the installer to set a root password, i created a forum post in the bug reporting section on how to do this since it seems to be needed. Once you reboot and login, please let me know the output of:

ls /sys/class/net

lspci -v

then

modprobe bnx2

dmesg | grep bnx2

Hello,

The output it's an image at https://ibb.co/mUNLMF

This the last return after modprobe bnx2

Regards, Cleber

Excellent !  it does identify the required firmware file bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw  that the driver is trying to write to the Broadcom controller.  I will try to get you an unofficial build done that includes this file as soon as possible, hopefully by Monday, and share the link with you.

 

This is a build that contains the required firmware

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7VNYCjYBY2yaVhja0t4SnZSWW8/view?usp=sharing

let me know if you have any issues

 

Hello,

Work's fine 😉 Very thanks.