Infrastructure Software

Problem:
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Eth0 and Eth1 is bonded and works fine
but when i reboot the OS eth0 and eth1 cant be up when i run command "ifup bond0" , it gives me following message.



netxen_nic device eth0 doesnt seem to be present, delaying intialization


netxen_nic device eth1 doesnt seem to be present, delaying intialization


Server: HP 580 Proliant

OS information:
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[root@at1ohypdb101 admin]# cat /etc/redhat-release
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)

[root@at1ohypdb101 admin]# uname -r
2.6.18-128.el5

Network Card :
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HP NC522SFP Dual Port 10GbE Gigabit Server Adapter


I am using above card , it works perfectly fine and I have bonded but when I reboot , eth0 and eth1 looses this driver and also the RPMS I have installed , they are gone too.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

[root@at1osoadb101 ~]# rpm -qa | grep hp
hp-nx_nic-tools-4.0.520-5
hpijs-1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4
hplip-1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4
libsane-hpaio-1.6.7-4.1.el5_2.4
hp-nx_tools-4.0.526-1
rhpl-0.194.1-1.0.2
rhpxl-0.41.1-7.el5
kmod-hp-nx_nic-4.0.520-5


[root@at1osoadb101 ~]# rpm -qa --last | head
EMCpower.LINUX-5.3.1.00.00-111 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:51:53 PM EDT
oracleasm-2.6.18-128.el5-debuginfo-2.0.5-1.el5 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:44:17 PM EDT
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.el5 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:43:59 PM EDT
oracleasm-2.6.18-128.el5-2.0.5-1.el5 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:43:48 PM EDT
oracleasm-support-2.1.3-1.el5 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:43:31 PM EDT
unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:35:37 PM EDT
unixODBC-devel-2.2.11-7.1 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:35:35 PM EDT
unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:35:34 PM EDT
unixODBC-2.2.11-7.1 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:35:31 PM EDT
xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1 Thu 24 Jun 2010 03:35:29 PM EDT


This is my modprobe.conf file

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alias bond0 bonding
alias eth0 netxen_nic
alias eth1 netxen_nic
alias eth2 bnx2
alias eth3 bnx2
alias scsi_hostadapter cciss
alias scsi_hostadapter1 ata_piix
alias scsi_hostadapter2 qla2xxx
alias scsi_hostadapter3 usb-storage
###BEGINPP
include /etc/modprobe.conf.pp
###ENDPP

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[root@at1osoadb101 ~]# lsmod | grep net
netxen_nic 115925 0
[root@at1osoadb101 ~]#


[root@at1osoadb101 ~]# lspci | grep NetXen
13:00.0 Ethernet controller: NetXen Incorporated NX3031 Multifunction 1/10 Gigabit Server Adapter (rev 42)
13:00.1 Ethernet controller: NetXen Incorporated NX3031 Multifunction 1/10 Gigabit Server Adapter (rev 42)


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I have posted my questions in lot of places some people are saying MODULES are not loading correctly ? and Some one is saying
/etc/udev/*rules file with hard ware addresses ( I have no clue about that )



Also, One more thing look at this

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[root@at1osoadb101 hp-nx_nic]# pwd
/lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/hp-nx_nic

[root@at1osoadb101 hp-nx_nic]# ls -l
total 580
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 30 10:35 driver
-rw-r--r-- 2 root root 575985 Jun 24 14:01 nx_xport.ko

[root@at1osoadb101 hp-nx_nic]# cd driver/
[root@at1osoadb101 driver]# ls -l
total 3492
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3566126 Jun 24 14:01 nx_nic.ko
[root@at1osoadb101 driver]#

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Also, Quick question wht shud be in front of eth0 and eth1 in modeprobe.conf ?
nx_port ?
netxen_nic ?
nx_port.ko?
nx_nic.ko ?

Read me file of driver said put "nx_nic" in modprobe.conf

Also, When I open Network Admin GUI in Linux , and slect Eth0 and click on Hardware Tab and click on Probe for Mac Address it gives me error in a form of popup saying " [Errno 19] No Such Device"

/var/log/message

Kernel: NetXEN Network Driver version 4.0.11
Kernel: netxen_nic Gen2 strapping detected
Kernel: netxen Firmware version 4.0.515
Kernel: netxen_nic : Error reading netxen_nic board config, Read 0 , expercted 12345678
Kernel: netxen_nic: Unknown board config version Read 0 , expecrted 1
Kernel: netxen_nic : Error getting board config info
kernel: netxen_nic probe of 0000:13:000.0 failed with error -5
kernel: netxen_nic: 0000:13:00.1: 2MB memory map

Edited by: koolbravo79 on Jun 30, 2010 9:02 AM