Hi there. 

I had to switch to a earlier kernel and the systems went into
production. From then on i didn’t have the equipment to test more. I
will try to test the 14.04 kernel as soon as a machine becomes avaiable.

On 30. juli 2014, at 01:38, thomas955 <thoeh...@benocs.com> wrote:

> hey,
> 
> some time is gone....
> 
> Ive tried new 14 LTS.
> Bug seems to´ve be gone. All my hardware is working.
> 
> Can you gimme some infos that our work wasnt helpless? Was or is it
> simply  accident or fortune that we had this issue?
> 
> I read yout conversation with the guy hes in charge with the dev of ixbe
> but im not quite sure if you realy solve the probelm yourselfs.
> 
> Thanks by the way for the help all the way!
> For me i can say .... ubuntu 14 server LTS no problems. If u need further 
> infos ill help u!
> 
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> Title:
>  Intel x520 NIC's (ixgbe) stop working in 12.10, 13.04, 13.10
> 
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Quantal:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Raring:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Saucy:
>  Confirmed
> Status in “linux” source package in Trusty:
>  Confirmed
> 
> Bug description:
>  We have a server (Dell R715) with two Intel x520 NIC's. If we run
>  Ubuntu 12.04 on it, the NIC's works flawlessly (with stock kernel
>  driver or with Intel compiled one), but if we upgrade release to
>  12.10, 13.04 or 13.10, the NIC's stop working: either stock or Intel
>  drivers fails with error:
> 
>  [  226.395766] Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 
> 3.18.7
>  [  226.395770] Copyright (c) 1999-2013 Intel Corporation.
>  [  226.395980] ixgbe: probe of 0000:22:00.0 failed with error -5
>  [  226.396092] ixgbe: probe of 0000:22:00.1 failed with error -5
>  [  226.396203] ixgbe: probe of 0000:23:00.0 failed with error -5
>  [  226.396311] ixgbe: probe of 0000:23:00.1 failed with error -5
> 
>  I contacted Intel developers and they responded:
> 
>  "Hey Fernando,
>  We (ixgbe) only returns EIO (error 5) for a couple of reasons.
>   1) When we fail to io map (ioremap)
>   2) If the eeprom checksum is incorrect.
>   3) If the MAC address from the checksum is invalid
> 
>  Reasons 2 and 3 are related to the NIC's eeprom so if they worked with 
> another system they should still be fine now.  If you really wanted to verify 
> you could try out the NIC's on a known good system again to see if the eeprom 
> somehow got corrupted.
>  That pretty much leaves us with ioremap returning an error.  I'm not at all 
> sure why your Ubuntu release would not like the way we are calling ioremap, 
> but it might give you a place to start looking in Ubuntu changes.
>  Thanks,
>  -Don"
> 
>  If the server boot with kernel 3.2.0-55 (from grub menu) both NIC's
>  works fine.
> 
>  Please let me know how can I help!
> 
>  Regards
> 
>  Fernando
> 
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