SolarFlare 10GB card

Mark Felder feld at freebsd.org
Wed Aug 14 19:20:12 UTC 2013


On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 12:05:56 -0700
aurfalien <aurfalien at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> Well my fine feathered friend, thats my dilemma.
> 
> I do not see the SolarFlare via ifconfig.
> 
> Now pciconf -l shows much stuff, even my built in 1Gb nics but not my 10Gb Solars.
> 
> I'm sure one of the many PCI devices is listed, but not as a SlarFlare, but some generic device.
> 
> Any guidance?
> 
> - aurf
> 
> 

Just logged into the only Solarflare box I have access to --

/boot/loader.conf has

 sfxge_load="YES"


So on a running system you'll have to

# kldload sfxge

And my pciconf -l has these entries:

> sfxge0 at pci0:6:0:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x71041924 chip=0x08131924 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
> sfxge1 at pci0:6:0:1:  class=0x020000 card=0x71041924 chip=0x08131924 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00





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