Ferruh, On my fedora23, I don't have igb_uio
# modprobe igb_uio modprobe: FATAL: Module igb_uio not found in directory /lib/modules/4.4.6-300.fc23.x86_64 I am trying to bind to uio_pci_generic module thx -a On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com> wrote: > On 3/29/2016 3:11 PM, Al Patel wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am having an issue with binding a nic of type 82545EM to dpdk. I am > using > > a > > fedoracore23 VM on MAC with VMFusion. > > > > ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0 > > Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver > uio_pci_generic > > Error: unbind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot open > > /sys/bus/pci/drivers//unbind > > > > it is unbound from e1000, repeating the command: > > > > ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0 > > Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver > uio_pci_generic > > > > I repeated the same test on a ubuntu vm running on Virtualbox with > > NIC type 82450EM > > > > In this case, the device is able to bind successfully to uio_pci_generic > > driver. > > > > There is a igb_uio module that present. The device cannot be bound to the > > igb_uio > > driver. > > Hi Al, > > You are trying to bind to the driver "uio_pci_generic" not to the > "igb_uio", is it typo? If not, can you please double check if > "uio_pci_generic" module inserted. > Or bind device to "igb_uio": > "./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b igb_uio 0000:02:02.0" > > Regards, > ferruh > >