Intel X540 10 GbE - no carrier detected

cracauer@ · Mar 31, 2023

Code:

ix0: <Intel(R) X540-AT2> port 0x5020-0x503f mem 0xc2a00000-0xc2bfffff,0xc2c04000-0xc2c07fff irq 40 at device 0.0 numa-domain 0 on pci5
ix0: Using 2048 TX descriptors and 2048 RX descriptors
ix0: Using 16 RX queues 16 TX queues
ix0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 17 vectors
ix0: allocated for 16 queues
ix0: allocated for 16 rx queues
ix0: Ethernet address: ac:1f:6b:2c:ba:ec
ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
ix0: eTrack 0x800003e2 PHY FW V286
ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 16/2048, RX 16/2048

Connecting this one to a 1 GbE switch doesn't make it detect a carrier according to ifconfig. However, the link lights both on the switch and on the interface light up indicating the correct speed carrier. Furthermore, booting this into Linux (same cable connection) has it working no problem.

Any ideas how I could start debugging this?

14-current as of yesterday, but I also tried 13.1, no change. This is onboard on a Supermicro X10DRI-T4+.

Eric A. Borisch · Mar 31, 2023

Have you tried net/intel-ix-kmod (updated driver)?

cracauer@ · Mar 31, 2023

Eric A. Borisch said:
Have you tried net/intel-ix-kmod (updated driver)?

I wasn't aware of that. Thanks so much.

cracauer@ · Apr 1, 2023

Eric A. Borisch said:
Have you tried net/intel-ix-kmod (updated driver)?

Hmmm, no change with that driver. I am sure I successfully loaded it, but still no carrier.

covacat · Apr 1, 2023

can you force media / mediatype from ifconfig ?

Eric A. Borisch · Apr 1, 2023

You’re not the first to have issues with it: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2015-November/269044.html

One suggestion is manually “ifconfig ix0 up” and wait; it may take 15s or so. But it seems you are not alone.

Eric A. Borisch · Apr 1, 2023

Putting together with covacat: ifconfig ix0 media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex up

Might help avoid auto-negotiation issues as the card and the remote end debate what they both support.

cracauer@ · Apr 2, 2023

Eric A. Borisch said:
Putting together with covacat: ifconfig ix0 media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex up

Might help avoid auto-negotiation issues as the card and the remote end debate what they both support.

This gets you a 'device not configured' message, but the interface works fine at 1 GbE afterwards.

Erichans · Apr 3, 2023

Judging by the net/intel-ix-kmod's last update (=2022-09-10 17:41:16) you could also consider trying Intel® Network Adapters Driver for PCIe* 10 Gigabit Network Connections Under FreeBSD* (2/20/2023 - version 3.3.33)

mystiquebsd · Apr 29, 2023

Hey there.. how did this end up?

I have a Netgate device ix0, ix1 are dual media (copper and sfp+) with pfsense it would work..

Nothing else seems to ..

 



root@OPNsense:~ # ifconfig -vvvvvvvv ix0

ix0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500

    description: OPT3 (opt3)

    options=4803828<VLAN_MTU,JUMBO_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,NOMAP>

    ether 90:ec:77:29:03:26

    media: Ethernet autoselect

    status: no carrier

    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>



root@OPNsense:~ # ifconfig ix0 media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex up

ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured



root@OPNsense:~ # ifconfig -vvvvvvvv ix0

ix0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500

    description: OPT3 (opt3)

    options=4803828<VLAN_MTU,JUMBO_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC,NOMAP>

    ether 90:ec:77:29:03:26

    media: Ethernet autoselect

    status: no carrier

    nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>



ix0@pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x020000 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x8086 device=0x15c4 subvendor=0x8086 subdevice=0x0000

    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'

    device     = 'Ethernet Connection X553 10 GbE SFP+'

    class      = network

    subclass   = ethernet



 dmesg | grep ix0 

ix0: <Intel(R) X553 N (SFP+)> mem 0x80400000-0x805fffff,0x80604000-0x80607fff at device 0.0 on pci9

ix0: Using 2048 TX descriptors and 2048 RX descriptors

ix0: Using 4 RX queues 4 TX queues

ix0: Using MSI-X interrupts with 5 vectors

ix0: allocated for 4 queues

ix0: allocated for 4 rx queues

ix0: Ethernet address: 90:ec:77:29:03:26

ix0: eTrack 0x8000084b PHY FW V65535

ix0: netmap queues/slots: TX 4/2048, RX 4/2048



uname -a

FreeBSD OpnSense.lab.arpa 13.1-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 13.1-RELEASE-p7 stable/23.1-n250430-7eb6eb035df SMP amd64

cracauer@ · Apr 30, 2023

mystiquebsd said:
Hey there.. how did this end up?

I works after `fconfig ix0 media 1000baseTX mediaopt full-duplex up`.