Hello folks,

I'm running unRaid 6.6.3 and I have a Mellanox ConnectX-2 installed in my system, and the webui's system devices shows it as recognized:

 

[15b3:6750] 09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev b0)

 

Clearly, the system sees it and has the right driver for it. However, the device doesn't show up in the network options menu so I can't actually set it up and assign an IP to it.

 

The only thing I can think of is that I have set up a 4-port LACP aggregate using the regular 1Gb ports on the server, and maybe having a bond enabled somehow doesn't allow a new NIC to show up.

 

I haven't tried breaking up that bond yet into separate individual ports again to see if the Mellanox card will show up since its a pretty messy operation.

 

Any idea on what to do next to get the Mellanox to show up in the network settings? Is there something I'm missing here?

35 minutes ago, rb28dett said:

Clearly, the system sees it and has the right driver for it.

Doesn't necessarily mean a driver is loaded for it.  

 

What does

lspci -k

 

show?

Sorry I should've mentioned I checked that it was loaded with the mlx4_core driver.

 

Relevant output of 'lspci -k'

 

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev b0)
        Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s]
        Kernel modules: mlx4_core

 

Edited November 2, 20187 yr by rb28dett
clarity

7 hours ago, rb28dett said:

The only thing I can think of is that I have set up a 4-port LACP aggregate using the regular 1Gb ports on the server, and maybe having a bond enabled somehow doesn't allow a new NIC to show up.

This shouldn't be a problem, please post your diagnostics, maybe something visible there: Tools -> Diagnostics

Diagnostics attached

tower-diagnostics-20181102-1607.zip

NIC is found but driver isn't loading:

 

Nov  1 17:41:50 Tower kernel: mlx4_core 0000:09:00.0: command 0xff6 failed: fw status = 0xb
Nov  1 17:41:50 Tower kernel: mlx4_core 0000:09:00.0: RUN_FW command failed, aborting
Nov  1 17:41:50 Tower kernel: mlx4_core 0000:09:00.0: Failed to start FW, aborting
Nov  1 17:41:50 Tower kernel: mlx4_core 0000:09:00.0: Failed to init fw, aborting.
...
Nov  1 17:41:50 Tower kernel: mlx4_core: probe of 0000:09:00.0 failed with error -14

Bad NIC? Or possibly some incompatibility with the board/slot, you can try googling the error.

A little late but I figured I'd let anyone know if they ran into the same issue. One of the NICs was bad - couldn't re-flash the firmware either. I got it replaced by the seller and all is well now.

On 11/1/2018 at 11:04 PM, rb28dett said:

Sorry I should've mentioned I checked that it was loaded with the mlx4_core driver.

 

Relevant output of 'lspci -k'

 

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev b0)
        Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s]
        Kernel modules: mlx4_core

 

Just curious I don't see the driver in your screen shot as it shows in mine? Is that normal

 

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev b0)
        Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies HP 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual-Port NIC (rev C1)
        Kernel driver in use: mlx4_core
        Kernel modules: mlx4_core

On 11/27/2018 at 4:13 PM, mrbilky said:

Just curious I don't see the driver in your screen shot as it shows in mine? Is that normal

 

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev b0)
        Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies HP 10 GbE PCI-e G2 Dual-Port NIC (rev C1)
        Kernel driver in use: mlx4_core
        Kernel modules: mlx4_core

No its not normal. My output says it has the kernel driver 'mlx4_core` but it doesn't say it has loaded it. That's where the issue was. Yours is expected and normal output.

I am having the same issues, the card recognised but mlx4_core is showing Kernel driver in use. any ideas how I can resolve this?

The card is not showing in the networks tab.

 

Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] (rev b0)
        Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s]
        Kernel driver in use: mlx4_core
        Kernel modules: mlx4_core

Edited November 4, 20196 yr by Alanjm