topic Re: Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. -- NIC failing in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. -- NIC failing

rtwingfieldaven — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:36:05 GMT

Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. The AMI Aptio (UEFI) Setup Utility, v2.17.1254, is configured as follows:

Advanced
   Network Stack Configuration (UEFI)
       disabled
       enabled (Preboot Execution Environment - followingnot optioned if disabled)
           Ipv4 PXE support (enable/disable)
           Ipv6 PXE support (enable/disable)
           PXE boot wait time
           Media detect count

   CMS Configuration (Compatibility Support Module Configuration)
       CMS Support (enable/disable)
       CMS16 module version 07.79 (static)
       Boot option filter
           Legacy only
           UEIF only

   WHEA (Windows Hardware Error Architecture Support) disabled

   CPU configuration (many options here)
       Hyper-threading disabled

OS is FreeBSD v10.1 (and previous versions). . .have been working for 15 years+ on BIOS booting system. OS does boot under CMS legacy mode. Problem is ifconfig (FreeBSD command line utility)does NOT recognize and/or report the onboard NIC. All services that require ethernet interface will not/can not communicate via the NIC -- no DNS, NTP, SMTP/POP3, SSH, etc.

I have read from other HP web pages that this is because a "driver" is not installed. Well, Drivers are installed in the FreeBSD kernel, so where else should such a dirver be installed? AMI is no help . . ."not my problem, contact HP". HP is virtually impossible to contact.

System is unsuable. What to do?

Re: Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. -- NIC failing

Jimmy Vance — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 03:07:46 GMT

@rtwingfieldaven wrote:
I have read from other HP web pages that this is because a "driver" is not installed. Well, Drivers are installed in the FreeBSD kernel, so where else should such a dirver be installed? AMI is no help . . ."not my problem, contact HP". HP is virtually impossible to contact.
System is unsuable. What to do?

The kernel may have drivers, but it would appear that the kernel does not have a driver that recognizes the PCI ID of this NIC. If there isn't an updated driver for FreeBSD your only option is to try and get the source and compile a driver yourself, or install an additional NIC that works with FreeBSD

Re: Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. -- NIC failing

rtwingfieldaven — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 17:41:48 GMT

Apparently, HP product documentation does not identify the on-board NIC. On another "web-help" site post, I have read, "It's an embedded NC105i PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapter as HP calls it. Around the internet people identify it as a Broadcom BCM5722 card.", but I don't know for sure. It is not an actual physical PCIe card, but rather an on-board embedded chip system.

Can you tell me what the "NIC" is on-board the HPE ProLiant ML10 GEN9 . . .is? . . .so I can load an appropriate driver.

Re: Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. -- NIC failing

Jimmy Vance — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 18:34:30 GMT

According to the Quickspecs it is an Intel® Ethernet Connection I219-LM

https://www.hpe.com/h20195/V2/Getdocument.aspx?docname=c04922941

Re: Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. -- NIC failing

rtwingfieldaven — Sat, 18 Mar 2017 15:35:42 GMT

Never been able to find (recognize) and use the on-board NIC . . .so have installed (tried) two different PCIe NIC's, Rosewill (Realtek), and an Intel brand. OS (FreeBSD v10.1) can then see either of the devices. The ifconfig display and netstat status looks correct, but cannot interface with other public addresses on the WAN. Cannot ping or otherwise communicate with other servers on the LAN or WAN. Very disappointed with the limited options of the AMI "bios", and the HP product in general. Seems that there is something firewall-like inside the ProLiant ML10 box that is choking the system.

Re: Trying to setup a HPE ProLient MS10 Gen 9 system. -- NIC failing

Jimmy Vance — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:49:10 GMT

I asked a colleague what driver loads on the ML10 Gen9 and here is the output from RHEL 7.3 ethtool. Hopethis helps