Fc nic and Unraid

[JeffJeff]

I recently purchases two  LPE12002 Pcie Nics.

In unraid under system devices, I can see them. Yet under Network Settings I do not see them as an interface.

I have tried passing them through to a vm but in a vms settings they never show up on the pcie devices list.

 

What do I need to do to get these cards working?

[John_M]

To use any NIC you need its driver to be installed, but Unraid doesn't support Fibre Channel anyway.

[JeffJeff]

I was hoping to pass it through to a vm which does support it, but, the cards dont even show up on the pcie devices list under vm settings. Is there a way to force pass it?

Edited November 19, 2019 by JeffJeff

[John_M]

Do they show up in your diagnostics, or in response to

lspci

?

 

[bonienl]

Did you modify the syslinux configuration and stub the devices, this will make them available to VMs?

 

Edited November 19, 2019 by bonienl

[JeffJeff]

I do see them as pcie devices and they do have their own grouping. I will try to stub them.

[JeffJeff]

I managed to pass them to the VM but while booting the vm I get an error: 

 

I am using VyOS distro.

[JeffJeff]

is bumping allowed?

[bonienl]

16 hours ago, JeffJeff said:

I am using VyOS distro.

Are you sure VyOS has the drivers for this controller?

[JeffJeff]

From what I read yes becuase it is based off Debain.

[bonienl]

Try a "regular" Linux distro, like Ubuntu.

VyOS is a very stripped down distro.

[JeffJeff]

I tried ubuntu and am still getting the same error: 

I think it has to do with the pass through.

[JeffJeff]

I figured out the issue, it was the VM machine type. I set it to Q35-2.4 and now passes correctly. But now I cannot find it as a network interface.

Edited November 21, 2019 by JeffJeff

[testdasi]

4 hours ago, JeffJeff said:

I figured out the issue, it was the VM machine type. I set it to Q35-2.4 and now passes correctly. But now I cannot find it as a network interface.

Where can't you find it? In Unraid or in the VM?

 

Q35-2.4 is pretty old. What version you had before that? Why did you change it to Q35-2.4?

[JeffJeff]

I can find it as a pcie device in unraid and in the vm after passing it through. I cannot find the nic as a network interface even though that nic should be supported by the distro.