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