Why some of the interfaces are not getting loaded even after NIC card got detected in the system ?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • System has some onboard cards and some NIC cards added later.
  • Below is the lspci output showing all the NIC cards detected.
  • Out of these 8 cards, in ifconfig output can see only 6 interfaces got loaded.
~]# grep -i ethernet lspci 
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit SFP+ Network Connection (rev 01)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
07:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)
43:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1512 (rev 01)
43:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1512 (rev 01)
             +-01.0-[01]--+-00.0  Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2
             |            \-00.1  Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2
~]#
  • As per booting logs from dmesg and /var/log/messages the card for which no interface(ethX/emx/pxpx etc) where seen is Intel Corporation Device 1512 (rev 01

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Any Version)
  • Intel Corporation Device 1512 (rev 01)

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