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

[Geert Stappers]

On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 09:16:33AM -0400, Danny Kulchinsky wrote:
> 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

https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/3fe683eb
(Sun, 29 Sep 2019 21:59:22 +0200 (20:59 +0100))


> 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*)

https://git.ipxe.org/ipxe.git/commit/5cf5ffea  
(Wed, 7 Dec 2016 15:46:37 +0200 (13:46 +0000))

> and that works just fine.
> 
> We can provide any additional output/test as needed.

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Geert Stappers
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