Why did be2net driver fail to initialize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7?
Issue
- Emulex
be2net10GbE network cards fail to initialize on RHEL 5.7, but they worked on RHEL 5.6. - The following errors are logged on boot:
be2net 0000:10:00.0: Error in cmd completion - opcode 103, compl 2, extd 30df630040
be2net 0000:10:00.0: Error in cmd completion - opcode 90, compl 2, extd 300df630140
be2net 0000:10:00.0: Emulex OneConnect 10Gbps NIC initialization failed
be2net: probe of 0000:10:00.0 failed with error -1
- The devices do not initialise, can cannot be started with
ifup:
# ifup eth0
Device eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 (kernel
2.6.18-274series) - Emulex OneConnect 10Gbps network card
be2netdriver version 4.0.100r
be2net driver version: 2.102.518r
firmware-version: 2.101.374.0
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