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    BCM57840 QuadPort 10G NIC not working

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      shimano
      last edited by

      Hello guys,

      Please help me fix this, i replaced my old intel 10g card cause i need it two aditional 10g ports and only had in stock a quadport from Broadcom with 4x 10G, after checking the compatibility list here:

      The bxe driver provides support for various NICs based on the QLogic
     NetXtreme II family of 10Gb Ethernet controller chips, including the fol-
     lowing:

     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57710 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57711 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57712 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57712-MF 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57800 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57800-MF 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57810 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57810-MF 10Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57840 10Gb / 20Gb
     +o	 QLogic	NetXtreme II BCM57840-MF 10Gb

      i found my card: QLogic NetXtreme II BCM57840 10Gb / 20Gb -> listed here so i thought it should 100% work.

      After installing the card i get this wierd errors like:

      bxe0: WARNING: No power capability
bxe0: ERROR: Failed to create dma tag for 'ECORE_ILT' (22)
bxe0: ERROR: ecore_ilt_mem_op ILT_MEMOP_ALLOC failed
bxe0: ERROR: Initialization failed, stack notified driver is NOT running!
bxe0: WARNING: No power capability
bxe0: ERROR: Failed to create dma tag for 'ECORE_ILT' (22)
bxe0: ERROR: ecore_ilt_mem_op ILT_MEMOP_ALLOC failed
bxe0: ERROR: Initialization failed, stack notified driver is NOT running!

      Card is detected but without a mac address and does not make a link

      5a0df13a-73f8-4ed0-8fb6-52e470142835-image.png

      No mater what i do i can't get it to link to my 10G switch.

      Please help me fix it, thank you very much.

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      • stephenw10S
        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
        last edited by

        There are a bunch of debugging options you can play with in bxe(4):
        https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=bxe

        Looks like something pretty low level though. If it's not something known that could be very hard to solve.

        Steve

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          shimano @stephenw10
          last edited by

          @stephenw10 Thank you very much for the link, i'm a beginner thought, any hints on what i should start looking for ? thank you

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            Hmm. Not really. I have never dug too deep into Broadcom.

            Swapping the card out is going to be the easiest/fastest thing here.

            Otherwise I'd get Googling. 😉
            There are actually some Broadcom firmware hacks about for other things so I imagine a lot of this will have been discussed on some forum/mailing list.

            Steve

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              shimano @stephenw10
              last edited by

              @stephenw10 Thanks again man, i did all i could but no chance to make it work, any chance to post a link to some of that firmware so i take my shot flashing the card ? nothing i did worked don't think its fixable :(

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              • stephenw10S
                stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                last edited by

                None of that is directly related. I just meant there was an active effort to make that work and I'm sure there would have been debugging done at the time. I might be useful to reference that.

                Steve

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                  shimano @stephenw10
                  last edited by

                  @stephenw10 Is there any driver for this card for FreeBSD ? i tried reaching Broadcom but no response :(

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                  • stephenw10S
                    stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                    last edited by

                    It should be supported by bxe(4). There is no other driver as far as I know.

                    Steve

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