Chelsio_Adapter_Config.py Broken

[jsalvo]

Trying to run the chelsio adapter utility will error out:

zsh: /usr/sbin/chelsio_adapter_config.py: bad interpreter: /usr/bin/python2: no such file or directory

Seems that python2 isn't a thing in scale land, and is a dependency for the chelsio utility. Additionally apt is disabled, so can't install python2 to fix.

Is fairly important for anyone using chelsio nics (lots of truenas users).

 

[danb35]

Seems that python2 isn't a thing in scale land

Since it's been EOL for almost four years, that isn't surprising.

 

[jsalvo]

I agree but no one has looped chelsio in.

 

[Kris Moore]

You can raise a ticket for us to look at it, but if the upstream source for those tools isn't updating them, then that often makes it difficult for us. In the meantime, what functionality are you trying to adjust using that tool? Might make sense to know your use-case first, see if there's some other thing we should be exposing vs using legacy EoL tools.

 

[jsalvo]

You can raise a ticket for us to look at it, but if the upstream source for those tools isn't updating them, then that often makes it difficult for us. In the meantime, what functionality are you trying to adjust using that tool? Might make sense to know your use-case first, see if there's some other thing we should be exposing vs using legacy EoL tools.

How can I raise a ticket?

The tool itself is used to flash firmware to the chelsio cards allowing different protocols and configurations. In my specific case I wanted to switch a T580 from 4x10gbe mode to a 2x40Gbe mode.

I have found that the driver source code does also build a binary of the py script... which is not distributed with truenas, but which would mitigate the lack of Python2.

For my use I managed to work around it, by building the binary on another machine, finding the firmware files needed, and then copying the binary and the firmware over to truenas and then flashing the card. But obviously this wouldn't be an acceptable work around in a normal production environment.

 

[Heracles]

You can do it in their Jira :

https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/NAS/issues/?filter=allissues