BCM5706: SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

[Ivan_win]

Hello everyone,

I've got a problem on some NIC on our DL380 G5 server that are running SLES10 64.
When the server boots or when I try to restart the network, I've got the following error: "SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy" and in the dmesg log: "bnx2: Chip reset did not complete"
And the NIC is out.
The network card is an HP multifunction NC380T PCI-E 1000TX 2ports card(2x BCM5706). It seems it's always the first NIC of the card where the proble occurs..
This server is identical to another 24 server that I have and the problem is present on 6 other servers.
The other NICs works fine when I attempt a network restart.

Some infos:
kernel version: 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
driver: bnx2
version: 1.5.5b
firmware-version: 1.9.6
bus-info: 17:04.0 an 14:04:0 (depending on the server...)

Tank you for your help

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

lsmod output.

/etc/modprobe.conf

I suspect a hardware error.

SEP

[Ivan_win]

Hello,

Thanks for helping.
I tried the latest broadcom bnx2 driver and it seems to solve the problem.
version: 1.6.7b

here's the lsmod result:

Module Size Used by
mptctl 41992 0
mptbase 69088 1 mptctl
sg 52136 0
af_packet 55948 0
ipv6 331008 44
8021q 37648 0
bonding 97280 0
button 24224 0
battery 27400 0
ac 22152 0
loop 33040 0
usbhid 60832 0
hw_random 22440 0
floppy 82728 0
shpchp 61728 0
uhci_hcd 48416 0
ehci_hcd 47752 0
pci_hotplug 44800 1 shpchp
ide_cd 57632 0
usbcore 149288 4 usbhid,uhci_hcd,ehci_hcd
cdrom 52392 1 ide_cd
bnx2 199944 0
ext3 150672 24
jbd 83648 1 ext3
ata_piix 33540 0
ahci 41352 0
libata 144808 2 ata_piix,ahci
dm_snapshot 33224 0
cciss 77192 4
piix 28036 0 [permanent]
edd 26760 0
dm_mod 79536 51 dm_snapshot
fan 21896 0
thermal 32272 0
processor 50536 1 thermal
aacraid 75648 0
serverworks 25488 0 [permanent]
sd_mod 37760 0
scsi_mod 168888 6 sg,ahci,libata,cciss,aacraid,sd_mod
ide_disk 32768 0
ide_core 165764 4 ide_cd,piix,serverworks,ide_disk

and the modprobe.conf in attachment

[Ivan_win]

Solution: update the driver to the latest version