From: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay.phadke@gmail.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does the Netxen driver work?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:03:02 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46930BFE.1020101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468E928D.20606@candelatech.com>
The MSI error wasn't fatal, so it was suppressed in recent fixes for
2.6.22-rc7. The driver in 2.6.21 had many bugs, but I ain't sure if
recent fixes are going to be pulled in Fedora kernel.
-Dhananjay
Ben Greear wrote:
> 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
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-10 4:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-06 19:05 Does the Netxen driver work? Ben Greear
2007-07-06 19:21 ` Ben Greear
2007-07-09 17:31 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-07-10 4:33 ` Dhananjay Phadke [this message]
2007-07-10 16:01 ` Chuck Ebbert
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