qlogic QLE2562

[Jaques]

Hi all

Please help, I got my hands on a Qlogic2562 fiber card. I can't seem to get it to work. No fiber cables connected at the moment will be direct connected to my server.
I don't see anything if I do a "ifconfig". The system does see the card if i do "lspci -s 02:00.0" any advice "step by step guide"

root@nas01:~ # lspci -s 02:00.0
02:00.0 Fibre Channel: QLogic Corp. ISP2532-based 8Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA (rev 02)
root@nas01:~ #

root@nas01:~ # ifconfig
em0: flags=8c02<BROADCAST,OACTIVE,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=4219b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWTSO>
ether f4:6d:04:97:c9:69
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect
status: no carrier
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
options=c019b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,TSO4,VLAN_HWTSO,LINKSTATE>
ether 00:0a:f7:4d:22:34
inet 10.0.0.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
nd6 options=9<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED>
media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex,master>)
status: active
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
groups: lo
root@nas01:~ #

 

[Jaques]

some more info not sure if it would help

root@nas01:~ # dmesg | grep isp
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0 xf7e20000-0xf7e3ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2532 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0xd100-0xd1ff mem 0xf7d84000-0xf7 d87fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
isp0: Chan 0 setting role to 0x0
isp1: <Qlogic ISP 2532 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7d80000-0xf7 d83fff irq 18 at device 0.1 on pci2
isp1: Chan 0 setting role to 0x0
ctlfe_onoffline: isp0 current WWNN 0x20000024ff350c76
ctlfe_onoffline: isp0 current WWPN 0x21000024ff350c76
ctlfe_onoffline: isp0 (path id 0) target role enable succeeded
ctlfe_onoffline: isp1 current WWNN 0x20000024ff350c77
ctlfe_onoffline: isp1 current WWPN 0x21000024ff350c77
ctlfe_onoffline: isp1 (path id 1) target role enable succeeded
vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff,0 xf7e20000-0xf7e3ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2532 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0xd100-0xd1ff mem 0xf7d84000-0xf7 d87fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
isp0: Chan 0 setting role to 0x2
isp1: <Qlogic ISP 2532 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7d80000-0xf7 d83fff irq 18 at device 0.1 on pci2
isp1: Chan 0 setting role to 0x2
ctlfe_onoffline: isp0 current WWNN 0x20000024ff350c76
ctlfe_onoffline: isp0 current WWPN 0x21000024ff350c76
ctlfe_onoffline: isp0 (path id 0) target role enable succeeded
ctlfe_onoffline: isp1 current WWNN 0x20000024ff350c77
ctlfe_onoffline: isp1 current WWPN 0x21000024ff350c77
ctlfe_onoffline: isp1 (path id 1) target role enable succeeded
root@nas01:~ #

 

[Arwen]

You do realize that this Qlogic 2562 is Fibre Channel, (which is a storage protocol), not Ethernet?

Thus, ifconfig would not work unless the card and driver supported IPoFC, (Internet Protocol over Fibre Channel). Even then, it would only help to FC SAN attached equipment.

There are rare FC cards that do support convergent networking, (both FC & Ethernet). But generally they are 10Gbps cards, not the 8Gbps card you have shown.

Last, FreeNAS has less support for Fibre Channel attached disks than straight forward OSes, like FreeBSD or Linux. That's because FC disks are more expensive, can be more complicated to setup, (Loop verses full fabric), and much less common for the home or small office environment.