XL710 on Scale how to enable if_ixl_load="YES" driver without loader?

[bbrain]

I've been trying to figure out how to enable this intel XL710 40g nic in truenas scale without loader config how does one do it?

 

[ornias]

Are you sure it isn't already compiled in iX's Debian Kernel?

 

[bbrain]

It doesn't show in an ifconfig, like the intel card i had before (when i was running truenas core) i had to add the line to enable it in the loader.conf file. But Truenas Scale doesn't have this loader.conf file, that I know off to enable a driver.

 

[amiskell]

It doesn't show in an ifconfig, like the intel card i had before (when i was running truenas core) i had to add the line to enable it in the loader.conf file. But Truenas Scale doesn't have this loader.conf file, that I know off to enable a driver.

If you manually enable the driver does the card come online? Drop to the shell/command line and run modprobe i40e and see if the network card becomes visible in ifconfig or ethtool.

 

[bbrain]

If you manually enable the driver does the card come online? Drop to the shell/command line and run modprobe i40e and see if the network card becomes visible in ifconfig or ethtool.

I didn't try that, with my inexperience with truenas scale, and this being a production setup, I figured best to just leave truenas scale for now. while cool, just not ready, had some other issues as well with the general workings of scale. Just wanted to give it a shot. When it is production ready, will be a nice way to setup a cluster.