I’ve got a VMWare edge 620 that had a working instance of OpenWRT on it. I did a upgrade and now as far as I can tell OpenWrt doesn’t see any of the NICs, lo is the only one that shows up when i run ifconfig -a. My google fu is also failing and I can’t find the original guides I used to set it up. It is running the generic X86_64 image. I have a very vague memory of having to set something to enable the switch but since I can’t find the original install guide I don’t know what to even search for. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I do have serial access to the box.
you have installed the correct ethernet driver (it should be this):
kmod-ixgbe
Yes, I have the drives for both the 1G and 10 nics installed.
root@OpenWrt:/etc# opkg list-installed | grep kmod-ix
kmod-ixgbe - 5.15.162-1
root@OpenWrt:/etc# opkg list-installed | grep kmod-e1000
kmod-e1000 - 5.15.162-1
kmod-e1000e - 5.15.162-1
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I did the reset and that didn’t help. All the nics show up in the BIOS. I’ll see if @frollic or @stangri can offer any suggestions. Thanks
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I don't own any of these any more, try booting some other Linux or the old Openwrt version dist off a flash drive, to see if it detects the missing NICs.
What did you upgrade from and to ?
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Good idea on trying an older version of OpenWRT, I upgraded to OpenWrt 24.10.2. I don’t remember what I was coming from. I bricked it a while ago and am just now getting to trying to fix it.
Driver is igb
Which supports sr-iov aka vf / pps and ptp / multiqueue / xdp bpf
e1000? used to support these cards at partial function levels.
How did you test this?