No network card seen on a HP ProLiant BL460c G7 with dual port Emulex FlexFabric 10Gb

[cronos6]

Hi,

I'm facing to a new problem with Proxmox on HP ProLiant BL460c G7 including HP NC553i Integrated FlexFabric Adapter, also called Emulex dual port FlexFabric 10GbE.
I've installed "proxmox-ve_2.1-f9b0f63a-26.iso" (Kernel 2.6.32-11) and the OS can't see any network card. I prevously tested XenServer 6.0 and VMware ESXi 5.0 : eveything went alright so it's not a hardware problem. I have other linux installed on those blade : they works smoothly too. The driver loaded is "be2net". I try to load the driver by myself (using modprobe), it didn't change anything.
I've found this topic : http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/5275-be2net-driver : I'm already running pve-firmware_1.0-15_all.deb, more up to date than the one recommended on the topic.
- I could upgrade the kernel maybe ? This will be a painful, I don't have network connection to download basic compilation tools...
- Install an up to date debian kernel ?

Any ideas to fix this network issue ?

Thanks

 

[udo]

Re: No network card seen on a HP ProLiant BL460c G7 with dual port Emulex FlexFabric

Hi,

I'm facing to a new problem with Proxmox on HP ProLiant BL460c G7 including HP NC553i Integrated FlexFabric Adapter, also called Emulex dual port FlexFabric 10GbE.
I've installed "proxmox-ve_2.1-f9b0f63a-26.iso" (Kernel 2.6.32-11) and the OS can't see any network card. I prevously tested XenServer 6.0 and VMware ESXi 5.0 : eveything went alright so it's not a hardware problem. I have other linux installed on those blade : they works smoothly too. The driver loaded is "be2net". I try to load the driver by myself (using modprobe), it didn't change anything.
I've found this topic : http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/5275-be2net-driver : I'm already running pve-firmware_1.0-15_all.deb, more up to date than the one recommended on the topic.
- I could upgrade the kernel maybe ? This will be a painful, I don't have network connection to download basic compilation tools...
- Install an up to date debian kernel ?

Any ideas to fix this network issue ?

Thanks

Hi,
the networkcard isn't reconiced or not in use?
Look with

dmesg | grep eth
ifconfig -a
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
lspci -v

Udo

 

[cronos6]

Re: No network card seen on a HP ProLiant BL460c G7 with dual port Emulex FlexFabric

#

dmesg | grep eth
-> empty

# ifconfig -a
-> lo, venet0 and vmbr0​

# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
-> No such files or directory
# lspci -v
-> Nothing related to ethernet card

I've booted on a livecd and I have the similar pattern. Strange, both XenServer & VMware worked on this hardware. Then, I remember my previous problem : http://forum.proxmox.com/threads/9576-Unable-to-install-the-boot-loader?p=54081#post54081
I double-check the BIOS : I disabled also the mezzanine network card (f*** me).
Sorry for the noise :-/

 

[charnov]

Re: No network card seen on a HP ProLiant BL460c G7 with dual port Emulex FlexFabric

I'm seeing a lot of talk out there relating to the be2net drivers and the Debian kernel. This may be an issue of needing a backport (if possible) from the 3.3 kernel.
https://launchpad.net/emulex

 

[udo]

Re: No network card seen on a HP ProLiant BL460c G7 with dual port Emulex FlexFabric

I'm seeing a lot of talk out there relating to the be2net drivers and the Debian kernel. This may be an issue of needing a backport (if possible) from the 3.3 kernel.
https://launchpad.net/emulex

Hi,
but pve use the RHEL-Kernel.

Udo

 

[kofik]

Re: No network card seen on a HP ProLiant BL460c G7 with dual port Emulex FlexFabric

True but I don't know how far the PVE-Kernel derives from the RHEL 6 kernel.

HP has source RPMs for NC553i drivers for RHEL 6 available for Download - this could be worth a try but I'd expect it to be not very much straightforward since the explanations for installation were written for RHEL and SLES. With some luck, RH will integrate these drivers into a next version of their RHEL kernel as they do lots of backporting* on drivers - mostly server hardware like your CNA.

(I have some pitty for the RHEL kernel maintainers who backport huge pieces from modern kernels to the RH kernel for up to 10 years ;-) )