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Mellanox Cards not assigneable in Unraid. #14

Closed domrockt closed 10 months ago

domrockt commented 1 year ago

When i patch this Kernel on Unraid 6.12.4 my both my Mellanox cards( Unraid server 1, dual 25Gbe Connect 4x. Unraid server 2 100Gbe connect 4x) wont be assigned to be a usable NIC.

Both are listed in the System Devices but are not usable/configurable as NICs ETH0- ETHX.

Is there a reason for that? Maybe because Mellanox is Nvidia right now?

I want to use my Intel ARC 770 for Docker use.

thx for any info on that.

regards

thor2002ro commented 1 year ago

there seams to be a driver for Ethernet Mellanox in the kernel and its in the release....

CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_MELLANOX=y CONFIG_MLX4_EN=m CONFIG_MLX4_CORE=m CONFIG_MLX4_DEBUG=y CONFIG_MLX4_CORE_GEN2=y CONFIG_MLX5_CORE=m CONFIG_MLX5_FPGA is not set CONFIG_MLX5_CORE_EN is not set CONFIG_MLXSW_CORE=m CONFIG_MLXSW_CORE_HWMON=y CONFIG_MLXSW_CORE_THERMAL=y CONFIG_MLXSW_PCI=m CONFIG_MLXSW_I2C=m CONFIG_MLXSW_SPECTRUM=m CONFIG_MLXSW_MINIMAL=m CONFIG_MLXFW=m

should work and maybe it needs some configuration....

domrockt commented 1 year ago

So i got ALOT of mlx5 errors on boot -16 and some more

So the Card and Drivers are found but the Card wont initialize.

When i downgrade the Card is directly acknowledged and works just fine. Maybe i try an older version, tommorow.

Can i use this [6.2 20230220 o2 gcc 6.11.5] on Unraid 6.12.4? or do i need the newest?

thor2002ro commented 1 year ago

dont try kernels for 6.11 they wont work

thor2002ro commented 1 year ago

try 6.6rc7 maybe they fixed it in this

domrockt commented 1 year ago

"error while getting interface flags no such device" it seems that the driver is not starting but it is there.

thank you for responding it seems i must wait for Unraid to update the Linux version.

thor2002ro commented 1 year ago

By what you are saying sounds like the mainline driver is busted....

domrockt commented 1 year ago

[Mellanox CX4121A IBM 01GR253 Dual-Port SFP28] [Mellanox Huawei ConnextX CX455A 06030347 1-Port NIC 100G QSFP28]

both Connect 4x Cards

mlx5 kernel driver and Kernel module is loaded in 6.12.4 and works just fine.

yea it sounds so but for this long? i mean we are talking server grade NICs here :D

thor2002ro commented 1 year ago

Servers don't usualy use latest kernels server farms usualy use 5.10, 5.15 kernels

thor2002ro commented 10 months ago

6.7 has new Mellanox stuff in it .... see if it works if you want...

domrockt commented 10 months ago

Hey cool you mentioned back to me, i got knee deep in modifiing the Kernel myselfe and added all needed functions. It works now fine with my own Kernel Package, but thx for not forgetting me :D