I can help with that.

Please look here for the latest driver releas:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/i40e%20stable/

- Greg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson, Shannon [mailto:shannon.nel...@intel.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 6:25 PM
> To: Fujinaka, Todd; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Alpesh Patel
> Cc: e1000-devel; Brandeburg, Jesse
> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i40e driver question
> 
> Alpesh,
> 
> Your log messages show that you are using driver version 0.4.10-k which is
> extremely old at this point, and will not support the more recent
> hardware/firmware that you have (e8000152d).  Before doing anything else,
> please find a newer driver.
> 
> sln
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Fujinaka, Todd [mailto:todd.fujin...@intel.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 5:26 PM
> > To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Alpesh Patel
> > Cc: e1000-devel; Brandeburg, Jesse
> > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i40e driver question
> >
> > Actually, you have direct support through the local Cisco team. Please
> > contact them for help.
> >
> > Todd Fujinaka
> > Software Application Engineer
> > Networking Division (ND)
> > Intel Corporation
> > todd.fujin...@intel.com
> > (503) 712-4565
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jeff Kirsher [mailto:jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 3:55 PM
> > To: Alpesh Patel
> > Cc: e1000-devel; Brandeburg, Jesse
> > Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i40e driver question
> >
> > On Wed, 2015-06-10 at 18:57 -0400, Alpesh Patel wrote:
> > > Hi Jeffrey,
> > >
> > > I found your name from lwn.net posting.
> > >
> > > I am trying to use the X710 nic and am using the i40e driver
> > >
> > > Is that the right driver for that nic?
> >
> > Yes.  I have added e1000-devel mailing list (as well as a couple of
> > i40e
> > developers) to help answer your questions.
> >
> > > I see a few dmesg logs (curtailed):
> > >
> > > on loading the driver (i40e):
> > > i40e: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver - version
> > > 0.4.10-k
> > > i40e: Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 Intel Corporation.
> > > i40e 0000:05:00.0: f4.22 a1.1 n04.26 e8000152d i40e 0000:05:00.0:
> > > MAC
> > > address: 68:05:ca:32:fd:78 i40e 0000:05:00.0: AQ Querying DCB
> > > configuration failed: 1 i40e 0000:05:00.0: init_pf_dcb failed: -53
> > > i40e 0000:05:00.0: irq 188 for MSI/MSI-X ...
> > > i40e 0000:05:00.0: irq 233 for MSI/MSI-X i40e 0000:05:00.0: Could
> > > not remove default MAC-VLAN i40e 0000:05:00.0: i40e_ptp_init: added
> > > PHC
> > on
> > > eth18 i40e 0000:05:00.0: PCI-Express: Speed 8.0GT/s Width x8 i40e
> > > 0000:05:00.0: Features: PF-id[0] VFs: 32 VSIs: 34 QP: 28 RSS FD_ATR
> > > FD_SB NTUPLE PTP i40e 0000:05:00.1: f4.22 a1.1 n04.26 e8000152d i40e
> > > 0000:05:00.1: MAC address: 68:05:ca:32:fd:79 i40e 0000:05:00.1: AQ
> > > Querying DCB configuration failed: 1 i40e 0000:05:00.1: init_pf_dcb
> > > failed: -53 i40e 0000:05:00.1: irq 234 for MSI/MSI-X ...
> > >
> > >
> > > and this happens for each of the 4 ports on this nic. I understand
> > > that this nic uses fortville chip - with 4x10g ports on the nic.
> > >
> > > When I connect the port to an ixia interface, the led on ixia is not
> > > up (it is not lighted with any color)
> > >
> > > I manually assigned an ip and brought the interface up - it stays up
> > > and I am able to ping it, but that's just loopback interface ping.
> > >
> > > are the failures/errors in the log above harmless?
> > >
> > > any documentation on the driver/parameters? Any configuration or
> > other
> > > information that you can point me to would be helpful.
> > >
> > > mii-tool on these interfaces do not work
> > > [root@ott-ss-dt-14 0000:05:00.0]# mii-tool eth18 SIOCGMIIPHY on
> > > 'eth18' failed: Operation not supported
> > >
> > > any pointers you can provide?
> >
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