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I have CentOS 7 installed on a desktop with a BCM5709 ethernet controller. I am running kernel<BR>
4.4.136-1.el7. This card has 4 ports but only the first 2 are configurable. This appears to be a <BR>
bnx2 driver or related firmware issue.<BR>
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Here is some ouput from lspci:<BR>
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)<BR>
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)<BR>
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet<BR>
06:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet<BR>
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And from dmesg:<BR>
[ 0.972743] bnx2: QLogic bnx2 Gigabit Ethernet Driver v2.2.6 (January 29, 2014)<BR>
[ 0.973170] bnx2 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)<BR>
[ 0.974280] bnx2 0000:05:00.0 eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem da000000, IRQ 18, node addr 00:10:18:96:50:10<BR>
[ 0.975177] bnx2 0000:05:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)<BR>
[ 0.976296] bnx2 0000:05:00.1 eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem d8000000, IRQ 19, node addr 00:10:18:96:50:12<BR>
[ 0.977549] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)<BR>
[ 0.978098] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: Firmware not running, aborting<BR>
[ 0.978649] bnx2 0000:06:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)<BR>
[ 0.979184] bnx2 0000:06:00.1: Firmware not running, aborting<BR>
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>From searching around on the internet it seems like RedHat may have addressed this very issue<BR>
quite a while back by releasing an rpm for a driver "kmod-bnx2". You have a version of this driver<BR>
on elrepo but it appears to be only for kernels used with el6 - not el7.<BR>
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Can you point me to a solution here? I was thinking about building from a source rpm.<BR>
Also, I was thinking this card may be fully supported by the bnx2 driver and associated firmware in<BR>
some later kernel?<BR>
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Jim Eitel <<A HREF="mailto:j.eitel@cox.net">j.eitel@cox.net</A>>
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