[ipxe-devel] [HPE BL460c Gen10][Emulex NIC] Failing to open netX device (Input/Output error)

[Danny Kulchinsky]

Hello everyone,

We've seem to have hit the same issue already reported in the past (
https://ipxe-devel.ipxe.narkive.com/yvFmyDlQ/nic-drivers) but either it was
never resolved or it's just a different permutation.

Here are the details:

*NIC Adapter:*
HP FlexFabric 20Gb 2-port 650FLB Adapter, which is based on the Emulex
XE-104 processor (https://h20195.www2.hpe.com/V2/GetPDF.aspx/c04347341.pdf),
the NIC is configured in a FlexNIC configuration.
*NIC Firmware: *12.0.1216.0 (latest available)

We used the latest ipxe.efi (*3fe683eb*) which failed, following the
instructions in the mentioned thread we've built the same with *DEBUG=nii:3*
 and got the same outputs as in the linked thread:

*ifstat*

iPXE> ifstat
net0: b8:83:03:f6:ba:90 using NII on NII-0000:37:00.0 (closed)
   [Link:down. TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
   [Link status: Unknown (http://ipxe.org/1a086194)]
net1: b8:83:03:f6:ba:98 using NII on NII-0000:37:00.1 (closed)
   [Link:down. TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
   [Link status: Unknown (http://ipxe.org/1a086194)]
net2: b8:83:03:f6:ba:91 using NII on NII-0000:37:00.2 (closed)
   [Link:down. TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
   [Link status: Unknown (http://ipxe.org/1a086194)]
net3: b8:83:03:f6:ba:99 using NII on NII-0000:37:00.3 (closed)
   [Link:down. TX:0 TXE:0 RX:0 RXE:0]
   [Link status: Unknown (http://ipxe.org/1a086194)]
iPXE>


*ifopen net0 (same for the other 3)*

iPXE> ifopen net0
NII NII-0000:37:00.0 issuing 05:0001 ifnum 0 cpb db
7a2e67c6 : ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff-00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 :
7a2e67d6 : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00
7a2e67ba : 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00
NII NII-0000:37:00.0 could not set station address: Operation not supported
(http://ipde.org/3c6a4083)
NII NII-0000:37:00.0 issuing 09:801b ifnum 0
NII NII-0000:37:00.0 could not set receive filters 0x801b: Input/output
error (http://ipxe.org/1d6a4a98)
NII NII-0000:37:00.0 issuing 07:0000 ifnum 0
Could not open net0: Input/output error (http://iime.org/1d6a4a90)
iPXE>


We've built the ipxe.efi using the commit that was mentioned (*5cf5ffea*)
and that works just fine.

We can provide any additional output/test as needed.

Regards,
Danny
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