Mellanox ethernet in Ampere eMAG system

[Greg V]

Jan 18, 2020 2:35:50 AM John F Carr :

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> > I am installing FreeBSD CURRENT on an Ampere eMAG (Lenovo HR330A). The kernel can't find a driver for two of the ethernet ports. Linux sees them as mlx5, and FreeBSD has a driver by that name in sys/dev/mlx5. Is there a file I need to tweak to get a driver bound?
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> Further information. I should have tried this before emailing. kldload mlx5 generates kernel messages:
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> but ifconfig does not report any new devices.
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Well, you didn't load the Ethernet driver. Just load mlx5en, mlx5 is the core dependency shared by mlx5en and mlx5ib, you shouldn't need to load it manually.

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> So why doesn't module mlx5 load automatically?
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Because no one added pnp info or whatever that's called I guess.

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> And what are the ifconfig device names?
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IIRC it's mceN.