Why showing NIC inactive for Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10-Gigabit PCIe while installing RHEV Hypervisor on HP ProLiant BL460c G6

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Issue

  • Why showing NIC inactive for Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10-Gigabit PCIe while installing RHEV Hypervisor on HP ProLiant BL460c G6

  • At the time of installation the two Ethernet Ports are detected as follows:

       Name            Driver       MAC
    1) eth0            bnx2x        d8:d3:85:5b:c2:20
    2) eth1            bnx2x        d8:d3:85:5b:c2:24
    

But shows ethernet inactive, although presses YES to configure the same

NIC is: INACTIVE
Help identify eth0 by blinking the lights for 10 seconds ([Y]es or [N]o)?
  • Output of mii-tool is "SIOCGMIIPHY on "ethX" failed: resource temprarily unavailable". The output of "ethtool" shows shows "no link detected" and "operstate" shows "down".

    # mii-tool eth0
    SIOCGMIIPHY on "eth0" failed: resource temprarily unavailable
    
    # mii-tool eth1
    SIOCGMIIPHY on "eth0" failed: resource temprarily unavailable
    
    # ethtool eth0
    Settings for eth0:
         Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
         Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full 
                                 2500baseX/Full 
                                 10000baseT/Full 
         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
         Advertised link modes:  1000baseT/Full 
                                 2500baseX/Full 
                                 10000baseT/Full
         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
         Speed: Unknown!
         Duplex: Unknown! (255)
         Port: FIBRE
         PHYAD: 16
         Transceiver: internal
         Auto-negotiation: on
         Supports Wake-on: g
         Wake-on: g
         Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)
         Link detected: no
    
    # ethtool eth1
    Settings for eth0:
         Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
         Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full 
                                 2500baseX/Full 
                                 10000baseT/Full 
         Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
         Advertised link modes:  1000baseT/Full 
                                 2500baseX/Full 
                                 10000baseT/Full
         Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
         Speed: Unknown!
         Duplex: Unknown! (255)
         Port: FIBRE
         PHYAD: 17
         Transceiver: internal
         Auto-negotiation: on
         Supports Wake-on: g
         Wake-on: g
         Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)
         Link detected: no
    
    # cat /sys/class/net/eth0/operstate
    Down
    
    # cat /sys/class/net/eth1/operstate
    Down
    
  • Network is active if install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 update 5 with kernel 2.6.18-194.el5

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor release 5.5-2.2 (8.7)
  • Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM57711E 10-Gigabit PCIe (modules bnx2x and bnx2i)

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