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Hardware and Performance / Broadcom P425G not working (driver) on OPNsense 23.1

« on: June 22, 2023, 09:21:05 pm »

I recently installed a Broadcom P425G (4x 25Gbe) on a hardware running OPNsense 23.1. Unfortunately, there seems to be a problem with the drivers and no ethernet card is shown (ifconfig -a). 

I should mention that on Linux the P425G Ethernet card works, and that on Linux I was able to install the latest P425G firmware [1].

OPNsense (13.1-RELEASE-p7) has a driver/module: if_bnxt.ko . With this module loaded, no network device is found. Furthermore, I tried to compile the latest version of the if_bnxt.ko module from [1]. Even after unload the bundled driver and loading the new driver, no Ethernet device was found.

Do you have any suggestion ?


Here a portion of the output of pciconf -lbcevV :

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none6@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 rev=0x11 hdr=0x00 vendor=0x14e4 device=0x1801 subvendor=0x14e4 subdevice=0x4250
    vendor     = 'Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries'
    device     = 'BCM57504 NetXtreme-E Ethernet Partition'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
    bar   [10] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0x6045070000, size 65536, enabled
    bar   [18] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0x6044000000, size 16777216, enabled
    bar   [20] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0x60450b8000, size 32768, enabled
    cap 01[48] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D3  current D0
    cap 03[50] = VPD
    cap 11[a0] = MSI-X supports 74 messages
                 Table in map 0x20[0x0], PBA in map 0x20[0x4000]
    cap 10[ac] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 256(512) FLR RO NS
                 max read 4096
                 link x16(x16) speed 16.0(16.0) ClockPM enabled
    ecap 0001[100] = AER 1 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 1 corrected
    ecap 0003[13c] = Serial 1 84160cfffe648250
    ecap 0004[150] = Power Budgeting 1
    ecap 0002[160] = VC 1 max VC0
    ecap 000b[180] = Vendor [1] ID 0000 Rev 0 Length 32
    ecap 0018[1b0] = LTR 1
    ecap 000e[1b8] = ARI 1
    ecap 0010[1c0] = SR-IOV 1 IOV disabled, Memory Space disabled, ARI disabled
                     0 VFs configured out of 8 supported
                     First VF RID Offset 0x0100, VF RID Stride 0x0001
                     VF Device ID 0x1806
                     Page Sizes: 4096 (enabled), 8192, 16384, 32768, 65536, 131072, 262144, 524288, 1048576, 4194304
    ecap 0017[230] = TPH Requester 1
    ecap 0019[300] = PCIe Sec 1 lane errors 0
    ecap 001f[200] = Precision Time Measurement 1
    ecap 0026[358] = Physical Layer 16.0 GT/s 1
    ecap 0027[388] = Lane Margining at Receiver 1
  PCI-e errors = Correctable Error Detected
                 Unsupported Request Detected
     Corrected = Advisory Non-Fatal Error
    VPD ident  = 'Broadcom NetXtreme E-Series Quad-port 25Gb SFP28 PCIe Ethernet Adapter'
    VPD ro PN  = 'BCM957504-P425G'
    VPD ro MN  = '14E4'
    VPD ro V0  = '226.1.107.1'
    VPD ro V1  = '226.0.135.0'
    VPD ro V3  = '226.0.145.1'
    VPD ro V6  = '226.0.135.0'
    VPD ro V7  = '0.0.0'
    VPD ro V9  = '0.0.0'
    VPD ro VB  = 'REV016DEV869DEV917'
    VPD ro SN  = 'P425G2215003XXXX'




[1] https://www.broadcom.com/products/ethernet-connectivity/network-adapters/p425g