Broadcom NIC not bringing up second port

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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What? How did that happen?

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I don’t need to reinstall, but I need to fix grub. I removed the bnx2x-2.5g kernel I had installed with pacman -R. When I did that though, it didn’t update grub. Grub now tries to boot a bad entry, which isn’t going to work. No big deal, just use grub to pick the correct kernel. However, my keyboard is locked up in grub. I can’t do anything. Num lock won’t even change state so something is off there. I can mount my boot partition and change my grub entries or I can just reinstall. I am almost tempted to do an install with “offline” mode so that the live ISO doesn’t update to see if that works. I would imagine it would.

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Did you already update the bios?

Edit: Couldn’t you just arch-chroot from the live ISO and reinstall grub and update it?

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Yes, BIOS is updated.

Correct, I can do that to fix grub.

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Did that package just come out? bnx2x-2.5g kernel

Edit: I’m just asking because on the live ISO would most likely be the 5.15 kernel. So if you updated to 5.16.8 this is a kernel with the bnx2x built in?

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I believe the 2.5g kernel has been around a while, but I believe it is for the 2.5g nic. That kernel seems to cause me problems.

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Yours is a 10GB nic correct?

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Correct. Dual port 10gb with sfp+ slots. I am connected via twinax.

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Something like this?

Broadcom NetXtreme II ML2 Dual Port 10GbE SFP+

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Did you get grub working again?

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Same basic idea. Yes.

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Haven’t booted up my computer today to work on it yet.

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Not sure if this helps here but I am having a similar issue with Fedora 34 where the bnx2x modules all of a sudden won’t load. I am only using 1 nic on the dual card but nothing is coming up online. This just happened after an upgrade.

bnx2x: [bnx2x_compare_fw_ver:2379(enp4s0f1)]bnx2x with FW 120d07 was already loaded which mismatches my 150d07 FW. Aborting

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What kernel version are you running? I wonder if this is an upstream issue.

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So. I just recently installed this kernel “5.16.8-200.fc35” Sorry i am on Fedora 35. I just booted into this kernel and the issue is gone “5.15.16-200.fc35.x86_64”. I am removing the new kernel. From the looks on my system “5.16.8-200.fc35” was the issue.

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It looks like it is a kernel bug in the newer kernel versions because I am experiencing the same issue when I switch kernels.

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Thank you for posting your issue! Glad we were able to find the culprit. I wonder how we report this issue to those who need to fix it.

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@mns6070
So i guess that’s why it works on the live ISO then with the older kernel.

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That’s my thinking as well. It is the only thing that makes sense to me at this point given everything that we are seeing.

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How is it that you have this type of connection? Is this a home connection?