From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Does the Netxen driver work? Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:05:49 -0700 Message-ID: <468E928D.20606@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: NetDev Return-path: Received: from ns2.lanforge.com ([66.165.47.211]:56260 "EHLO ns2.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762165AbXGFTFu (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2007 15:05:50 -0400 Received: from [192.168.100.224] (static-71-121-249-218.sttlwa.dsl-w.verizon.net [71.121.249.218]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns2.lanforge.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l66J5nZN022685 for ; Fri, 6 Jul 2007 12:05:49 -0700 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello! I just got some Netxen 10Gbe CX4 adapters and put them into freshly updated Fedora 7 64-bit systems. So far, I am not having much luck. Kernel is: Official F7 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 NIC: 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: NetXen Incorporated NXB-10GCX4 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adapter with CX4 copper interface (rev 25) The motherboard chipset is Intel based (I can provide more info is someone cares..but I first wanted to make sure there are no well-known issues.) Interesting boot messages: Jul 5 16:15:17 a440-dc kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 Jul 5 16:15:17 a440-dc kernel: netxen-nic: unable to allocate MSI interrupt error Jul 5 16:15:17 a440-dc kernel: netxen-nic: XGbE board initialized Is that MSI error fatal? The two NICs are connected by a CX4 cable, and from dmesg output, it appears they have negotiated link properly. However, I see tx counters incrementing on both sides, but no rx counters. I will try the latest 22-pre kernel in the meantime, but if anyone has any experience getting these NICs to work, I'm interested to know about it. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com