hi everyone, have spent 1.5 days on this now and am confused-- seems like there are several options on how to get this driver working, but i can't seem to make any of them happen. can someone point me in the right direction? here's the most relevant of what i've tried so far:
- was following a conversation with Akemi Yagi ( https://access.redhat.com/discussions/3722151), where they talk about mpt3sas and megaraid. i tried installing mpt3sas from elrepo: Installed: kmod-mpt3sas-28.100.00.00-2.el8_1.elrepo.x86_64 rebooted and the module wasn't loaded. did an insmod mpt3sas and the module loaded, but lshw still says the card is UNCLAIMED and there's no driver for it. installed kmod-megaraid_sas from elrepo: Installed: kmod-megaraid_sas-07.707.51.00-1.el8_1.elrepo.x86_64 rebooted, and again mpt3sas was not loaded; also, megaraid_sas seems to be the same version that was loaded before: modinfo megaraid_sas filename: /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64/weak-updates/megaraid_sas/megaraid_sas.ko description: Broadcom MegaRAID SAS Driver author: [email protected] version: 07.707.51.00-rc1 license: GPL rhelversion: 8.1 srcversion: 1CDFF574D9202A94AABD3E9 now when i do a "modprobe megaraid_sas" i see these in /var/log/messages: Mar 17 17:17:41 bfg-9000 kernel: megasas: 07.707.51.00-rc1 Mar 17 17:17:41 bfg-9000 kernel: megaraid_sas 0000:81:00.0: Waiting for FW to come to ready state Mar 17 17:17:41 bfg-9000 kernel: megaraid_sas 0000:81:00.0: Failed from megasas_init_fw 5914 questions: - do i need to get rid of the old megaraid_sas kernel module? i think it's the stock one in the centos8 kernel. - am i missing a kernel recompile step? or dracut? - do i need to install both mpt3sas and megaraid_sas? totally separate path-- got drivers and install doc from Broadcom: went ahead and installed kmod-megaraid - according to the MegaRAID SAS Device Driver Installation User Guide, section 3.3.1, i can install kmod-megaraid_sas-07.712.02.00_el8.0-1.x86_64.rpm (downloaded from Broadcom). the problem with that is (same as above?) that there is already a megaraid_sas kernel module, and after the rpm install and reboot the old one is still loaded. do i need to remove the old one? can't figure out how to do that. do i need to run dracut to make the new module part of the kernel? the doc doesn't say that, but other sources talk about it. thanks for any help you can give-- i used to configure and build my own kernels, but that was many years ago. would like to get this working so i can get back to what i'm _supposed_ to be doing! :D thanks, jeff
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