Network interface or other hardware not appearing in RHEL5
Issue
- We are failing with
igbdriver which is unable to use multiqueue MSI-X interrupts - Mellanox ConnectX cards do not create interfaces, dmesg prints:
mlx4_core 0000:90:00.0: Requested 81 vectors, but only 24 MSI-X vectors available, trying again
Requesting 24 MSIX vectors
pci_enable_msix failed
- Broadcom
bnx2xNICs appear inlspci -nnbut not allethXnetwork interfaces are visible - Device probe fails:
bnx2x 0000:02:00.0: msix capability found
bnx2x 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
bnx2x 0000:02:00.0: part number 394D4342-31383735-31543030-47303030
bnx2x 0000:02:00.1: msix capability found
bnx2x 0000:02:00.1: setting latency timer to 64
bnx2x 0000:02:00.1: part number 394D4342-31383735-31543030-47303030
bnx2x 0000:02:00.1: No valid MF OV for func 1, aborting
bnx2x: probe of 0000:02:00.1 failed with error -1
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
- Modern multi-queue hardware with many MSI or MSI-X interrupt vectors
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