Drivers for Broadcom Dell Network cards

[Bryans50 0]

Hello people!

 

My question is why unraid doesn't include the drivers for the newest Dell integrated network cards. I just bought a brand new Dell T640 and tried to install unraid. Unfortunately i'm not in for any luck on the network side. Probably it's an driver issue because "lspci" does show the two cards inside my system. But they don't show as network interfaces on the unraid webinterface. I tried windows with the driver and it just works perfectly. I tried adding the linux drivers from dell but that didn't work for me. Maybe there is somebody that can help met with this problem.

 

Maybe it's the wrong topic for this sub but i'm pointing it out anyways.

 

Anyhow, Please please add driver support for the new Broadcom BCM57416 NetXtreme-E 10Gb RDMA Ethernet Controller network card from Dell.

 

Cheers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dazog 19]

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/BNXT.html

 

It says since 4.4 it's in kernel.

 

I would wait to try next unraid 6.6 with latest 4.17 kernel.

[Bryans50 0]

https://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/BNXT.html
 
It says since 4.4 it's in kernel.
 
I would wait to try next unraid 6.6 with latest 4.17 kernel.

The weird thing is that I don't see the adapters in the web interface of unraid. Any ideas why?

Lspci shows the device though..

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[johnnie.black 1382]

Please post your diagnostics: Tools -> Diagnostics

[Bryans50 0]

10 hours ago, johnnie.black said:

Please post your diagnostics: Tools -> Diagnostics

I want to do that but I can't connect to the pc in the local network because the networking isn't working....

I can only "download" the zip on the local machine, not on a remote machine.

[Bryans50 0]

As shown in the picture below you can see the cards detected.

[johnnie.black 1382]

5 minutes ago, Bryans50 said:

I want to do that but I can't connect to the pc in the local network because the networking isn't working....

I can only "download" the zip on the local machine, not on a remote machine. 

On the console type diagnostics and the zip will be saved to your flash drive, then just plug it in a desktop.

[Bryans50 0]

18 minutes ago, johnnie.black said:

On the console type diagnostics and the zip will be saved to your flash drive, then just plug it in a desktop.

I send you the diagnostics in private.

[johnnie.black 1382]

Next time please use the forum instead of pm, but yeah the NICs are detected and no driver is loaded, if there's an available driver in the kernel LT are usually quick to add it and it should be on the next release.

[Bryans50 0]

1 minute ago, johnnie.black said:

Next time please use the forum instead of pm, but yeah the NICs are detected and no driver is loaded, if there's an available driver in the kernel LT are usually quick to add it and it should be on the next release.

Ah alright! thanks I'll wait for the next release. Is there any way I can add the drivers myself?

[johnnie.black 1382]

Just now, Bryans50 said:

Is there any way I can add the drivers myself?

Possibly, but that's beyond my knowledge

[Bryans50 0]

Just now, johnnie.black said:

Possibly, but that's beyond my knowledge

Ah thanks for the help though

[UserNo9 1]

I'm planning on using a Dell T640 server. Has there been any progress on a driver for the internal network adapter? Currently as of, 09/17/2018 the OS version of unRaid is 6.5.3. Would a workaround be to install a separate network adapter card that has a kernel driver? I chose this server because it can house (18) 3.5 HDD's.

[limetech 597]

Those drivers have been included for a while now.  You can try latest 6.6.0-rc.  If no luck, we cannot do anything without diagnostics.zip because we need to see PCI ID's to see if they are actually in the source.  This site referenced by @Dazog says they should be, and looking at kernel 'menuconfig' we have all Broadcom device support turned on (and have for quite a while now), and specifically NetXtreme II 10Gb is included.

[UserNo9 1]

Thank you!