No driver for Intel E610 and no possibility to install xcp on Dell R670

[Hocum7]

We bought a new Dell R670 with Intel E610 OCP3 graphics cards. Initially, there's no way to install the system because there are no drivers for this card. I put in an old x540 card and the installer continued.

Is it possible to add this driver to the repo?
All new servers will have at least these cards.
I don't want to compile the drivers myself because I'll have to recompile them for the new kernel with each update.

thanks and greetings
marti

[ydirson]

Can you please check the PCI product ID, I guess it will be one of the following?

8086  Intel Corporation
        57ae  Ethernet Controller E610 Backplane
        57af  Ethernet Controller E610 SFP
        57b0  Ethernet Controller E610 10GBASE T
        57b1  Ethernet Controller E610 2.5GBASE T
        57b2  Ethernet Controller E610 SGMII

[fallen]

@Hocum7
Just to clarify the issue, I am guessing there is a typo in your message and you're talking about a NIC, right?

[Hocum7]

1. The appropriate network interface card (NIC) driver is missing.

2. XCP-ng cannot be installed without a detected network interface; it is not possible to complete the installation and add the driver afterward.

[fallen]

@Hocum7 thanks for your answer, could you also please answer @ydirson 's question?

[Hocum7]

I have one 4port e610 OSCP3.0 card
0000:84:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0
0000:84:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0
0000:85:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0
0000:85:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0

[Hocum7]

bump

[fallen]

Hello @Hocum7
We investigated the issue and the bottom line is that this device is handled by the ixgbe driver that we package there: https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/intel-ixgbe
But the package we currently offer is too old to support your device.
To fix this, we are currently working on updating this driver, the PR has been merged 2 days ago: xcp-ng-rpms/intel-ixgbe#2
So in the next train of updates you should be able to update your driver and it should support your NIC.
Next generated installer ISO will also support your NIC.

Regards,

Yann

[fallen]

Hello @Hocum7
I've created a Driver Disk for you to test.
Can you please test this during an XCP-ng 8.3 install?
https://nextcloud.vates.tech/index.php/s/53pFqiAGp6inXYP

Thanks.
Regards,

Yann

[Hocum7]

Hello @Hocum7 I've created a Driver Disk for you to test. Can you please test this during an XCP-ng 8.3 install? https://nextcloud.vates.tech/index.php/s/53pFqiAGp6inXYP

Thanks. Regards,

Yann

I'll be installing the host next week, so I'll check.
I'll also upload the drivers to another host where I have these cards and see if XCP detects them.
I'll do it, and I'll let you know.
THX

Marcin

[Hocum7]

Hi guys,
I added drivers to the system, after restarting it sees new interfaces but without the names Intel E610

 lspci -k | grep -A3 Ethernet
0000:5c:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet 10G 2P X540-t Adapter
        Kernel driver in use: ixgbe
        Kernel modules: ixgbe
0000:5c:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Ethernet 10G 2P X540-t Adapter
        Kernel driver in use: ixgbe
        Kernel modules: ixgbe
0000:83:00.0 System peripheral: Intel Corporation Ice Lake Memory Map/VT-d
--
0000:84:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0003
        Kernel driver in use: ixgbe
        Kernel modules: ixgbe
0000:84:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0003
        Kernel driver in use: ixgbe
        Kernel modules: ixgbe
0000:85:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0003
        Kernel driver in use: ixgbe
        Kernel modules: ixgbe
0000:85:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 57b0
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 0003
        Kernel driver in use: ixgbe
        Kernel modules: ixgbe

[ydirson]

after restarting it sees new interfaces but without the names Intel E610

That's not unexpected, those names come from the /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids, which has not been updated from el7, with last change dating 2018.