Re: [9front] 10Gbit PCIE Intel 85299-1SFP Troubleshooting

[ori@eigenstate.org]

% pci -v
<snip>
1.0.0:	net  02.00.00 8086/1557  11 0:e030000c 524288 2:0000f001 32 4:e038000c 16384
	Intel Corporation 82599 10 Gigabit Network Connection

This card works for me out of the box, with a 10g sfp.
What specific PCI id do you have? what SFP?

This is going to take some debugging.

Quoth Mr Neuralwright <neuralwright@tutamail.com>:
> Hi All,
> I have recently acquired a 10Gbit PCIE Intel 85299-1SFP network card since this chipset is supported in 9front, although now I suspect the driver may have only RJ45 port variants of 85299 supported, and not SFP - hopefully I'm wrong and I'm just missing something.
> 
> #ip/ipconfig
> "no success with DHCP*
> 
> #ip/ipconfig -g 192.168.1.1 ether /net/ether0 192.168.1.200 255.255.255.0
> #ip/ping 192.168.1.1
> Pings fail
> #cat /net/ether0/adder
> successfully returns a MAC address
> 
> (Yes, ether0 is the PCIE card and not the integrated NIC)
> Notably the Rx/Tx lights on the SFP port do not light up at all. Networking and the activity lights work perfectly fine on Ubuntu out-the-box, so the hardware is fine.
> 
> 9front does at least recognise the device exists, which is a start. Any suggestions on how to resolve this?