Can't get Chelsio N320E (10gbase) to work at all

[Kei]

Hello everyone,
I've installed a Chelsio N320E NIC on my system, a Supermicro x10sl7-f motherboard, with FreeNAS-11.2-U7 on.
The card is correctly recognized since I can see both interfaces showing up as cxgb0 and cxgb1.
However, upon connecting to a PC with a point to point connection, I can't even ping the bloody thing.
On the PC, if I type arp -a i see the ip for the freenas server but the mac address is reported as incomplete. If I add it with arp -s, and sniff the traffic on the FN box, I do see ping traffinc being received and being replied back to the PC, however the PC does not seem to receive a single packet with wireshark.
Does anyone kindly have some experience to share hoping to help me fix this issue?
Thank you!

 

[blanchet]

Maybe you have to upgrade the firmware of the NIC. The last version is T3 FW 7.11.0

Chelsio Driver Downloads

service.chelsio.com

https://service.chelsio.com/drivers/firmware/t3/t3fw_release_notes.txt

The procedure to upgrade the firmware of the Chelsio N320E on FreeBSD is explained here:

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I strongly suggest to test NIC on another computer with Linux to known if the issue comes from the NIC or the operating system.

 

[Kei]

Hey, thanks for replying. I did try the NIC on another PC with linux and it does work.
Yesterday I've also tried the NIC on another server with a fresh FN installation and it works, so the problem is either the specific hardware on my current NAS or something peculiar with the FN installation that I did, even if the version is the same.
Next thing I will try this weekend is to load a fresh install of FN on the current NAS hardware. I'll keep u guys posted!

 

[VioletDragon]

Hey, thanks for replying. I did try the NIC on another PC with linux and it does work.
Yesterday I've also tried the NIC on another server with a fresh FN installation and it works, so the problem is either the specific hardware on my current NAS or something peculiar with the FN installation that I did, even if the version is the same.
Next thing I will try this weekend is to load a fresh install of FN on the current NAS hardware. I'll keep u guys posted!

I have this card. works fine for me. did you set a Static IP on each end? is it a link only? Im using the T320s on FreeNAS and XCP-ng.