Mellanox Technologies MT27500 on RHEL6.3 does not come up with network interfaces
Issue
- Mellanox Technologies MT27500 on RHEL6.3 does not come up with network interfaces, works on 6.2
- infiniband card (Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family [ConnectX-3], pciid 15b3:1003) working on RHEL6.2 but not on RHEL6.3
- file
/sys/module/mlx4_core/parameters/port_type_arraycontains one or multiple zeros ("0"), signalling that the card is used in InfiniBand storage mode instead of network interface mode - My Mellanox card is not usable
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4beta
- Mellanox Technologies MT27500 Family ConnectX-3, pciid 15b3:1003 (issue likely to apply also to other cards)
- kernel
2.6.32-279and later (RHEL6.3GA kernel) mlx4_coreandmlx4_enkernel modules
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