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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: Issue with binding NIC of type 82545EM to dpdk
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:26:53 +0100
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On 3/29/2016 3:11 PM, Al Patel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having an issue with binding a nic of type 82545EM to dpdk. I am using
> a
> fedoracore23 VM on MAC with VMFusion.
> 
> ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0
> Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver uio_pci_generic
> Error: unbind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot open
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers//unbind
> 
> it is unbound from e1000, repeating the command:
> 
> ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0
> Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver uio_pci_generic
> 
> I repeated the same test on a ubuntu vm running on Virtualbox with
> NIC type 82450EM
> 
> In this case, the device is able to bind successfully to uio_pci_generic
> driver.
> 
> There is a igb_uio module that present. The device cannot be bound to the
> igb_uio
> driver.

Hi Al,

You are trying to bind to the driver "uio_pci_generic" not to the
"igb_uio", is it typo? If not, can you please double check if
"uio_pci_generic" module inserted.
Or bind device to "igb_uio":
"./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b igb_uio 0000:02:02.0"

Regards,
ferruh