Hello Farid,
Can you confirm that other operating systems pick up the Nic ok and they function ok has the Physical Host settings been setup correctly for SR-IOV is it possible that the nic has been assigned to another vm ? Hope this helps On 5 July 2018 at 15:38, Farid Joubbi <djfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I realize now that I wrote a reply to only Mike and not the whole misc > earlier. > > Anyway. > The server is running several functions, and it's not popular to do > maintenance on it. > I went ahead and rebooted it anyway since this is important ;-) > > I booted the OpenBSD 6.3 install media natively on the hardware. > It found all six NICs that I have installed. There are two Broadcom on the > mainboard and four on the Intel card. > Broadcoms were found as bge and Intel as em. They all seemed to work. > > I had an extra bge card lying around. I installed it in the server and did > PCI passthrough with it as well as the Intel in FreeBSD/bhyve. > I get the same result in OpenBSD: > bge0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5720" rev 0x00, BCM5720 A0 > (0x5720000), APE firmware NCSI 1.4.12.0: couldn't map interrupt > > Conclusion: > The problem has to do with the fact that bhyve is between the hardware and > OpenBSD. > > Any ideas? > > On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 2:31 AM Mike Larkin <mlar...@azathoth.net> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 03:36:17AM +0200, Farid Joubbi wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I have a server running bhyve in FreeBSD. I did PCI passthrough in order >> > to have exclusive access to one of the network interfaces on the server. >> > My plan was to use that NIC in OpenBSD. Unfortunately when I boot the 6.3 >> > release installer I get this in dmesg: >> > "em0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Intel 82576" rev 0x01: couldn't map >> > interrupt". >> > >> > The installation goes through without errors, but the Intel NIC is not >> > visible during install or after rebooting the installed system. >> > >> > Man pages suggest that the problem is a fatal initialization error. >> > >> > The NIC works without problems installing FreeBSD. >> > In FreeBSD the NIC uses the igb driver. >> > >> > https://man.openbsd.org/FreeBSD-11.1/igb.4 >> > >> > The OpenBSD man page for em lists 82576EB as supported. >> > >> > The NIC is an Intel Gigabi ET2 quad: >> > >> https://ark.intel.com/products/series/46841/Intel-Gigabit-ET-Server-Adapter-Series >> > >> > Could it be that the quad variant of the NIC is not supported by OpenBSD? >> > Is there anything I can do to make it work? >> > Is it possible to use the igb driver in OpenBSD somehow? >> > >> > Thanks. >> >> Before anyone at all spends any time on this, please verify if this works >> without bhyve in the way. Eg, boot natively on this hardware and see. >> >> Or did you already do that? In which case the commentary about bhyve is >> extraneous. >> >> -ml >> -- Kindest regards, Tom Smyth Mobile: +353 87 6193172 The information contained in this E-mail is intended only for the confidential use of the named recipient. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering it to the recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this communication in error and that any review, dissemination or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this in error, please notify the sender immediately by telephone at the number above and erase the message You are requested to carry out your own virus check before opening any attachment.
