Melanox network card not getting detected during the installation

[Charles Osman]

Hi,

Because of this postfix and other services fail to start and that cause the installation to failed at 100%.
The alternative would be installing proxmox on top of Debain.
Could it be possible to interrupt the install process and load the needed modules?

Thank you,
Charlie

 

[wolfgang]

Hi,

No you have to go the way over Debian.
Or may be you have a onbord nic what you can attach to the network during the installation.

 

[spirit]

strange, I don't have problem with my mellanox connectx-3 && connectx-4.

connectx-4 use mlx5 driver, and they are include in kernel 4.4. (so it works fine with proxmox 4 && 5)


do you have connectx-5 ?

 

[Gerhard W. Recher]

No Problems @ our side, not in 4.4 nor in 5.x beta or in 5.x final !

We also have Mellanox connect-x3 56GbitE in place.
only strange thing was Multicast, but these problems disappeared after upgrading Mellanox firmware.

download apt-get install mstflint and follow Mellanox documentation for firmware update.

my cards show now:

mstflint -d 81:00.0 q
Image type:          FS2
FW Version:          2.40.7000
FW Release Date:     22.3.2017
Product Version:     02.40.70.00
Rom Info:            type=PXE version=3.4.746 devid=4103
Device ID:           4103
Description:         Node             Port1            Port2            Sys image
GUIDs:               ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
MACs:                                     248a07e26070     248a07e26071
VSD:
PSID:                MT_1090111023

 

[Charles Osman]

Hi,

Thank you.
@wolfgang I don't have physical access to the server and can not connect the onboard nic.
I see the card during a fresh Debian install. But I don't see it during proxmox install. On other servers that have onboard nic connected, once proxmox is installed then I see the melanox card.
So my point is I don't see and can't choose the melanox which is the only connected card during the proxmox installation using the proxmox iso.

Thank you
Charlie

 

[Danesh Manoharan]

No Problems @ our side, not in 4.4 nor in 5.x beta or in 5.x final !

We also have Mellanox connect-x3 56GbitE in place.
only strange thing was Multicast, but these problems disappeared after upgrading Mellanox firmware.

download apt-get install mstflint and follow Mellanox documentation for firmware update.

my cards show now:

mstflint -d 81:00.0 q
Image type:          FS2
FW Version:          2.40.7000
FW Release Date:     22.3.2017
Product Version:     02.40.70.00
Rom Info:            type=PXE version=3.4.746 devid=4103
Device ID:           4103
Description:         Node             Port1            Port2            Sys image
GUIDs:               ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffff
MACs:                                     248a07e26070     248a07e26071
VSD:
PSID:                MT_1090111023

Are you installing using the Mellanox interface or a standard NIC?

 

[Gerhard W. Recher]

Are you installing using the Mellanox interface or a standard NIC?

of course Mellanox nic as stated above

 

[Danesh Manoharan]

of course Mellanox nic as stated above

Thanks, just wanted to make sure. I still can't get the installer to see my card during install.

41:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]
Kernel driver in use: mlx4_core
Kernel modules: mlx4_core