no if_mxge.ko FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1

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The driver is part of FreeBSD in 11.3 and 12.1 however missing in FreeNAS 11.3-U3.1

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Kumar 
June 3, 2020 at 9:19 PM
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yes could it be due to copying from USB3 hard drive via desktop to Freenas ?

i wish there was some simple video to see and learn for starters like me..

Any tips ?

Alexander Motin 
June 3, 2020 at 8:57 PM

I don't have experience with those Intel cards, but usually things like that should work just out of the box.  I would definitely check the `ifconfig` output for a connection speed, just in case you have some problems with cable, switch, etc.  Next step is usually a `iperf` network benchmark between FreeNAS host and the client.  If that work, plugins/jails are next, but there performance may depend how exactly network is configured for the jail.  Mentioned 11Mbps is a 100Mbit/s, that is not even 1Gbit/s, not speaking about 10. You must have some very serious network problems to be that slow these days.

Kumar 
June 3, 2020 at 8:38 PM

Hi Alexander Motin,

I did not know we could boot of an earlier version ...so i though everything will spoil and re-installed 11.3 and updated to 11.3u1 and yestrday to 11.3u2.

I have not purchased a 10gtek x550-t2 card and its showing fine. 

However when i copy files from my desktop (Asus xg–c100c card) to Freenas server x550-t2 card it still is copying at 11mbps //// can you please point me where to configure the card for me to get good network speed and also have plex & other plugins and jails... 

Alexander Motin 
June 3, 2020 at 7:15 PM

In the `pciconf -lvcb` output I see no device(s) with vendor ID 14c1 (Myricom) to which the mxge(4) driver could attach.  So it does not seem to be a problem of the driver, at least if that is what device it should be.  I am not completely sure, but I see there some 3x8 lane PCIe switch from PLX, that I also see on a photo of the card in manual.  But the switch reports no PCIe connectivity on its ports.  So I can guess that either somehow both NIC chips connected to the PCIe switch are dead, or there is something wrong with handling of the switch by the OS, or the switch completely is unrelated.

If the card worked before, have you tried to just boot previous boot environment of the FreeNAS and see whether it work again? Even just booting FreeNAS installer of the respective version and running ifconfig in its shell could be enough for check.

Kumar 
June 3, 2020 at 6:35 PM

Hi Alexander Motin,

My 10G Card was showing fine before the update in version 11.3 U2 but later i did a re-install and now cannot see my 10gb lan card Myricom-10G-PCIE2-8C2-T-2T

Now i removed all loader.conf and tunables complete...

root@MVNKnas[~]# kldstat
Id Refs Address Size Name
1 81 0xffffffff80200000 2566f28 kernel
2 1 0xffffffff82768000 100ee8 ispfw.ko
3 1 0xffffffff82869000 fa60 ipmi.ko
4 2 0xffffffff82879000 2d70 smbus.ko
5 1 0xffffffff8287c000 32cc8 if_bnxt.ko
6 1 0xffffffff828af000 2243e8 if_qlxgbe.ko
7 1 0xffffffff82ad4000 f1440 ocs_fc.ko
8 1 0xffffffff82bc6000 22150 smartpqi.ko
9 1 0xffffffff82be9000 8a40 freenas_sysctl.ko
10 1 0xffffffff82e19000 330048 vmm.ko
11 1 0xffffffff8314a000 a84 nmdm.ko
12 1 0xffffffff8314b000 2ec dtraceall.ko
13 9 0xffffffff8314c000 39a78 dtrace.ko
14 1 0xffffffff83186000 5c0 dtmalloc.ko
15 1 0xffffffff83187000 1898 dtnfscl.ko
16 1 0xffffffff83189000 1d61 fbt.ko
17 1 0xffffffff8318b000 53240 fasttrap.ko
18 1 0xffffffff831df000 bcc sdt.ko
19 1 0xffffffff831e0000 6af0 systrace.ko
20 1 0xffffffff831e7000 6ac8 systrace_freebsd32.ko
21 1 0xffffffff831ee000 f9c profile.ko
22 1 0xffffffff831ef000 39f4 geom_multipath.ko
23 1 0xffffffff831f3000 14320 hwpmc.ko
24 1 0xffffffff83208000 7140 t3_tom.ko
25 2 0xffffffff83210000 aa8 toecore.ko
26 1 0xffffffff83211000 f8d0 t4_tom.ko
27 1 0xffffffff83221000 2420 ums.ko
28 1 0xffffffff83224000 1780 uhid.ko
root@MVNKnas[~]# dmesg | grep -i mxge
root@MVNKnas[~]# dmesg | grep -i error
pcib0: _OSC returned error 0x10
pcib1: _OSC returned error 0x10

I used to get "Module pci/mxge failed to register: 17" but now gone after removing all reference. Please confirm if my card is dead as there is also someone suggesting so. just can't throw something so expensive away so easily.

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Created May 29, 2020 at 10:21 AM
Updated July 1, 2022 at 4:52 PM
Resolved June 3, 2020 at 8:57 PM