Re: Problems with ixgbe

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba_at_yahoo.com>wrote:

> I'm trying to fire up a couple of 10g cards (2 different cards with 82598
> NICs) hooked up back to back, and I'm having nothing but problems. I haven't
> gotten the latest version 1.5.6 driver to work under any circumstances. I've
> gotten the 1.2.16 driver that came in 7.0-RELEASE to work once on fresh
> boots on each machine, but then when rebooting one of the machines nothing
> could be done to get them to talk again. I did do quite a bit of testing so
> it doesn't seem that the cards are faulty. Its just wholly unreliable. It
> seems that they just don't transmit the frames properly. netstat -i shows
> outgoing packets but internal hw.ix.0.stats show none transmitted when
> enabled. I've tried disabling MSI-X, using just 1 queue, all with the same
> result.
>
> I don't have a 7.1 or 8 machine to test with at this location, so I don't
> know if there is something in 7.0-RELEASE that just won't work with these
> cards. I don't want to beat my head too badly, or spend time debugging if
> its just not going to work.
>
> First, should 1.5.6 work in 7.0? The README indicates it should. It makes
> little sense debugging an old driver.
>
>
> Barney
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Barney,

You never give specifics on your failures. The 1.5.6 driver should work,
however
there is newer code, I just have been too busy internally to get it checked
in yet.

Give me more exact details, what hardware, how is it hooked up, etc etc...

Jack