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Date:      Wed, 27 Sep 2017 17:13:06 +0200
From:      Ben RUBSON <ben.rubson@gmail.com>
To:        "Eugene M. Zheganin" <emz@norma.perm.ru>, FreeBSD Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ConnectX ethernet card: how do I get tghe driver for it.
Message-ID:  <48E7F74D-8483-41CA-9949-CF8318F22665@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <778184bf399a36358124a6b36d90d845@norman-vivat.ru>
References:  <778184bf399a36358124a6b36d90d845@norman-vivat.ru>

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Hi Eugene,

cd /usr/src/sys/modules/mlx4
make
make install
make clean
cd /usr/src/sys/modules/mlxen
make
make install
make clean

Add this to /boot/loader.conf :
mlx4_load=3D"YES"
mlxen_load=3D"YES"

Ben



> On 27 Sep 2017, at 17:10, Eugene M. Zheganin <emz@norma.perm.ru> =
wrote:
>=20
> Hi,
>=20
> I have an ConnectX ethernet card (vendor =3D 'Mellanox Technologies', =
device =3D 'MT26448 [ConnectX EN 10GigE, PCIe 2.0 5GT/s] <-- this is =
from the pciconf -lv, I believe it's an "unnumbered" ConnectX card) and =
FreeBSD 11 box. Skipping all of my unsuccessful tries description, I =
will simply ask :) - how do I get the driver for it ? seems like the =
sources are in the /usr/src/sys/ofed/drivers/net/mlx4 subtree, but =
issuing 'make' there I get a bunch of errors. If this card is supported =
(not sure it still is) then why isn't the driver available in the =
generic kernel ?
>=20
> P.S. Btw the man page for mlx4en(4) seems a bit obsoleted.
>=20
> Thanks.
> Eugene.



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