From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dhananjay Phadke Subject: Re: Does the Netxen driver work? Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:03:02 +0530 Message-ID: <46930BFE.1020101@gmail.com> References: <468E928D.20606@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.178]:11337 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750992AbXGJEhR (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jul 2007 00:37:17 -0400 Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1692803wah for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:37:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <468E928D.20606@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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 >