Tardisyuan

Thanks so much for confirming that — I really appreciate you taking the time to investigate this! As a possible workaround (suggested by ChatGPT), maybe the plugin could offer an optional legacy mode for older cards like the ConnectX-3, which uses a precompiled mstflint 4.18.0 binary bundled with its own OpenSSL 1.1 libraries. These could be loaded using LD_LIBRARY_PATH to avoid conflicts with Unraid 7’s OpenSSL 3 environment. This approach might allow legacy hardware to remain supported without affecting newer systems or requiring major changes to Unraid itself.

You’re right — I don’t have solid evidence that it’s strictly version-related, just based on my limited testing results. Thanks a lot for taking the time to look into it! As for the BIOS, I did try updating it, but unfortunately the issue still persists. I appreciate the reminder though — I’ll keep looking for possible solutions on that front.

I’ve now attached the Diagnostics log generated and plugin info screenshot while using plugin version 2025.02.10 as requested. unraid-diagnostics-20250430-1814.zip Regarding your question about why I believe the card is no longer supported by newer versions of mstflint: I actually built a custom Docker environment using a Dockerfile for testing purposes. Here’s what I found: When using mstflint v4.20.0, I encountered the exact same error as shown in the Diagnostics—Failed to recognize device (or similar). When I downgraded to mstflint v4.18.0 within the same environment, everything worked perfectly: the NIC was detected and firmware tools operated as expected. This leads me to believe that support for the ConnectX-3 (MCX311A-XCAT) may have been dropped or broken starting from mstflint v4.20.0. Here’s the simplified Dockerfile I used for testing: Dockerfile

Hi,I’m currently using Unraid 7.0.1 with a MCX311A-XCAT 10G single-port NIC (07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3]). While trying to use the Mellanox Firmware Tools plugin, I ran into an issue with the latest version (2025.02.10)—it fails to recognize the NIC. After some testing, I found that the problem is due to the mstflint version being too new. My card only works properly with mstflint version 4.18.0 or earlier. So I downgraded to the 2021.11.30 version of Mellanox Firmware Tools, which includes the older mstflint. However, when I try to run it, I get the following error: mstflint: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After reading earlier replies, I confirmed that Unraid 7 uses OpenSSL 3 by default, which seems to be causing the incompatibility. Now I’m in a dilemma: The latest tools don’t work with my NIC. The older tools require OpenSSL 1.1, which Unraid 7 no longer provides. Would it be possible to add support for older NICs like the ConnectX-3 in future versions of the plugin, or provide a build with backward-compatible mstflint and OpenSSL 1.1 included?