HP AD194-60001 PCI-X dual port fiber / ethernet card

[steve001]

Morning guys ,

trying to find out is this card supported by freenas ? i have 9.1.1

still trying to get my head round where stuff is, looked on hardware support but had loads of tabs open and search didn't find anything.

Steve

 

[steve001]

still looking and stumbled across this article , is it any good ?

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html

steve

 

[TheSmoker]

Hi Steve,

First, check here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.2R/hardware.html
Secont a chipset type, high res card picture as well as dmesg info could help us in providing an aswer for you.


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[steve001]

:) cheers will go have a look there . .

steve

 

[steve001]

here are pics will have a look at the link tonight , hope that it will work :) with freenas

 

[steve001]

:) found the intel driver chip is listed :)

 

[TheSmoker]

That's good. Put FreeNAS on a usb stick, boot it up and see if it will recognize it. It will, most probably as em(x) where x will be a number starting with 0.
Let us know how that went.


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[steve001]

not going to get chance to have a good go with it till weekend will let you know how i get on , or maybe back on here asking for help

Regards

Steve

 

[steve001]

I am back . . :( put card in and boot up freenas and it goes through usual stuff then I get the following errors and it fills the screen

isp 0 : mailbox cmd (0x400) with no waiters
isp 1 : mailbox cmd (0x400) with no waiters

any ideas

Steve

 

[steve001]

anybody got any ideas ? :(

 

[jgreco]

That's a dual port fiber channel, dual port ethernet, I think. Go into the card's firmware configuration and make sure that every last bit of fiber channel configuration is bludgeoned out, bludgeoned off, and/or disabled so that it isn't trying to attach to something.

 

[steve001]

it's the dual fibre that I want :(
What does that error message(s) mean ?

steve

 

[jgreco]

Do you have a fiber channel device hooked uo?

 

[steve001]

not as yet , there is nothing connected to the machine its on its own ,was just trying to see if it boots ok
do i need to hook up via fiber interface ?

steve

 

[jgreco]

Well, it seems likely that it is unhappy that there's no array or SAN attached.

 

[steve001]

Noticed today during booting my system i get the message "PCI CONFIGURATION ERROR"

i can't enter the BIOS of the card either. When i press Ctrl-Q nothing happens. A bit of googling i found out that the nvram could be corupted and needs to reset. QLOGIC won't give the needed information (and files), because the card is an OEM-Card for HP

The BIOS lists the card as a QLOGIC QLA2462

So i want to ask if there is anybody on here who can tell me how to reset the nvram ? and maybe a BIOS that is not OEM

Steve :(

 

[cyberjock]

Not to burst your bubble, but your question is beyond the scope of this forum. I wouldn't expect a response. You should probably Google around and see if you can find it posted elsewhere.

 

[steve001]

Thanks for your help , will do

Steve