Emulex LP8000DC fibre controller w/2.6.4 kernel

Spoot100

Has anyone tried to set one of these cards up under Gentoo linux and got it working?

When I try to compile the drivers it whines about missing header files. (and no, I was too tired and stupid last night to write down which ones were missing)

Anyone have any advice for this thing?

dnix · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 271 Location: Italy

I Spoot,
if you install a 2.6.10 kernel and dowload the latest version of the driver from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lpfcxxxx that now is the 2.6.8.0.21, and you compile, you go no errors.
cheers,
Dnix

goodwolf · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 3 Location: In the Net

and..
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reference this thread..
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I used Emulex LP101 FC HBA.. but..
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I have critical problem in Gentoo.. T.T
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https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=285444&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=lp101
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jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

All:

I hope this post finds you doing well. I am trying to set up my Emulex LP9002L-F2 Fiber Channel cards on my Compaq G1(DL360) machines. I am having problems doing this. I have followed DNIX's instructions in regards to getting the driver(s) form SourceForge and installing them. When I run "make" all seems fine and there are no apparent errors. I then do a "make install" and all seems to install well. I further edited my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 and put lpfc as an entry. After I saved that file I did a "modules-update" and rebooted my machine. When the machine comes up it gets to the part where it is "calculating module dependencies" and tries to load the lpfc driver. The driver load fails. Is there a place where I can view a log file to see why this driver failed? I looked in /var/log and could find no entries or directories for lpfc. Any help you can provide is GREATLY appreciated. I am running the linux-2.6.10-gentoo-r6 kernel. Have a nice day.

James

dnix · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 271 Location: Italy

try a

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

Here's what I see from the time I do the make to the dmesg after the reboot ->

Running the make ->

augury · l33t Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 722 Location: philadelphia

you should see sd's linking to scsi host for each disk. /dev/sda /dev/sdb... unless maybe you have a FC raid card too. i don't where that would be. you can also see them with lsscsi.

dnix · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 271 Location: Italy

is true, if the card works you can see it with lsscsi (emerge lsscsi) or with dmesg you must have all the scsi discs up

the problem is the message you get, I don't know absolutely. I try to retrive info from the producer, but try to do the same, normally they never reply...

cheers,
Denis

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

ok, so I try to do a lsscsi and it sez it can't find lsscsi to run the command. So, like a good likke Gentoo'er I do a emerge lsscsi and i see:

oragrid1 root # emerge lsscsi
Calculating dependencies
!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "lsscsi" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-fs/lsscsi-0.12 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
- sys-fs/lsscsi-0.14 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)

For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
section 2.2 "Software Availability" in the Gentoo Handbook.

so I do the "man emerge" adn i find the section that talks about masked packages and i see that I need to find a file called package.mask . So I do a "locate package.mask" and I see:

oragrid1 root # locate package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-darwin/macos/10.3/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-darwin/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2004.3/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/no-multilib/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/no-symlinks/no-lib32/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/no-symlinks/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc32/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2004.3/alsa/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/gcc34/2004.3/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64-multilib/dev/64bit-default/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/sparc/sparc64-multilib/dev/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2004.3/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/gcc2/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/default-sparc-2004.0/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/uclibc/package.mask
/usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

I then vi usr/portage/profiles/package.mask thinking that this is wher the lsscsi mask will be, but no dice. How do I unmask the lsscsi so I can emerge it and then use it?

dnix · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 271 Location: Italy

echo "sys-fs/lsscsi ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

but, better, search in /proc/scsi for the device

otherwise you have to break the equilibre of you stable gentoo :wink:

dnix · Apprentice Joined: 17 Jun 2003 Posts: 271 Location: Italy

what is the firmware of your card?

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

And a pie to boot :-)

. On a serious note, i've done the install now and thought I had success. I followed your instruciotn for the lsscsi emerge and they worked without a hitch. Now, when I reboot I get a MOUNTAIN of startup messages. As a result of these messages I decided to cat /proc/scsi/scsi to see what scsi devices were know on my machine. When I do this I see:

oragrid1 lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27 # cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
oragrid1 lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27 #

Now, I find this response odd because I KNOW I have successfully installed the Compaq SMART2 SCSI array controller to run the RAID0+1 on my local machine drives. If this wasn't the case my machine wouldn't even boot ... right??? Incidentally, when I run lsscsi I see:

oragrid1 lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27 # lsscsi
oragrid1 lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27 #

Again, shouldn't I ATLEAST see my SMART2 controller listed? I'm confused. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Also, i'm not sure how to get you the Firm Ware version since the lpfc install did not install the lputil package.

dweigert · Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2005 12:55 am Post subject:

Ok, the errors on your LPFC card indicate you may need to grab the latest firmware from Emulex.
If you look in the help forums on the lpfc driver site, you'll see that.

Dan
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shredator · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 82

Hello,
Do the drivers on sourceforge work with the lp6000 cards? I downloaded the driver and it wouldnt even make.

This is what I get:

shredator · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 82

anyone? anyone? Bueller?

dweigert · Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 12:37 am Post subject:

Post something on the lpfc forums about this.... it may be a problem with the kernel and driver interaction
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jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

So, I bet you were thinking I was a crab fisherman spamming this forum ...... Well, YOU'RE WRONG :lol:

. I've finally had success installing the lpfc driver in my Compaq G1 DL360. Here's how I did it and the hardware specs of the machine I'm using and the firmware specs on the card that is now working. First of all, I must give HUGE props to the folks in this forum who have helped me. Without their kind and patient input I believe I would have had a MUCH more difficult time getting my lpfc party started. I especially must thank dynix for his masterful input.

To get a look at the hardware my server is running please take a look at http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10530_na/10530_na.PDF . This tells the full story of my dual processor, 640 MB RAM machine MINUS the Emulex card. I am using the LP90002F as my HBA in this machine. To get the Gentoo installed on this machine I followed the Gentoo Handbook install and smeared on the many GREAT pointers from the forum https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-10380-highlight-dl360.html . In this forum I ESPECIALLY enjoyed the pointers from kilcrow that discussed the manual use of the grub tools and how to properly list my locally attached drives in the /etc/fstab . Once I installed the LATEST Gentoo it was time start my lpfc gyrations.

To start this lpfc driver adventure, at least in my case, I had to upgrade the firmware on my cards. The cards shipped with whatever version of firmware they came with and I upgraded to the latest firmware I could find at www.emulex.com. I had to pop the card into a Windows (or OS written by Satan) machine and load up the HBAAnywhere utility to update the firmware I downloaded from emulex.

Once the OS written my Satan and his minion experience was over I began the driver install maneuvers. First I visited the sourceforge site for the lpfc driver and I downloaded the lpfcdriver 8.x (for 2.6) file named lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27.tar.gz . Since I was root I just put this tar.gz file in root's home dir and did a tar-xzvf lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27.tar.gz . When this finished I saw a directory called lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27 so I did a cd lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27. This made my directory location /root/lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27 . Your directory location may be different so it's important you keep note of where you are. I further saw a directory called patches, so I did a cd into this directory thinking there may be OS patches I needed to apply. What do you know, there are patches for me to apply. So, I did a vi on the README and at the bottom it gave me the instructions for applying the patches. So, knowing that I was currently in the directory /root/lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27/patches I did a cd to /usr/src/linux and ran the commands "patch -p1 < /root/lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27/patches/p00001_hoststats.patch" through "patch -p1 < /root/lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27/patches/p00007_fc_rport.patch". Of course you do NOT need the "s when running this command. In fact, that will definitely screw up your efforts.

Now that I have the patches applied I recompiled my kernel and reboot the machine for good measure. I bet one does NOT have to do this step. However, doing so made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. When the machine came back up I did a cd /root/lpfcdriver-full-2.6-8.0.27/ and ram "make ADVANCED=2" (no quotes again). This made the driver successfully. Next I ran a "make install". YAHOOOO .... SUCCESS! I rebooted and now when I run dmesg | grep lpfc I see"

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

Try doing a make ADVANCED=2

James

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

So now that I have the drivers successfully installed, how do I get the HBAAnywhere installed / how do I get the card's SAN utilities installed? At the very least how do I get the card's wwn # so i can map that WWN to a SAN resource? Thanks in advance.

shredator · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 14 Apr 2005 Posts: 82

a few questions: are the drivers in the 2.6.12 kernel operational? I installed 2.6.12-rc3 and it hasnt furthered my cause any.
Is there a test that i can run to show if the driver is operational or not?
I guess Ill bring my HBA's to my girlfriends house and update the firmware. maybe that will help

party on,
Kalen

jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

Now that I have the lpfc driver installed properly I thought I might fdisk the assigned space at that HBA and create an XFS file system and use it. So, I did the fdisk and the mkefs.xfs with much success. The result of this is an XFS filesystem at /dev/sda4. I then made the following entry in my /etc/fstab thinking it would mount said entry at boot time:

/dev/sda4 /tmp xfs defaults,noatime 0 0

Alas, it failed to boot at startup. The on screen error message was: "Block device NOT available .... Some filesystems did not mount". Whe I get a prompt I login and doa lsmod to see if the lpfc module loaded. This is what I see:

Module Size Used by
uhci_hcd 29968 0
ohci_hcd 17672 0
ehci_hcd 27784 0
lpfc 142396 1
sworks_agp 8352 0
agpgart 29616 1 sworks_agp
usbcore 102648 3 uhci_hcd,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd

Thus I feel certain it did load.

Now, when I type 'mount -t xfs /dev/sda4 /tmp' after boot everything mounts just fine. What gives? Thanks in advance for your help.

dweigert · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 1:31 am Post subject:

That one is pretty easy... the module loaded AFTER you tried to mount the filesystems? There is a short delay while udev does its thing, it may be a mis-timing. You can always force it to load by putting lpfc in the /etc/modules-autoload.d/kernel-2.6 file The kernel should pick it up before udev starts then

Dan
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jeastman · n00b Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 52

Putting the lpfc module in my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 did NOT get it loaded in time to mount that mount point assigned to that HBA. Arrrggghhhhh....... Woe is me ......... Thanks so much for your help so far. ANy additional help is gretaly appreciated. For reference here's what my /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 looks like:

# /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6: kernel modules to load when system boots.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6,v 1.1 2003/07/16 18:13:45 azarah Exp $
#
# Note that this file is for 2.6 kernels.
#
# Add the names of modules that you'd like to load when the system
# starts into this file, one per line. Comments begin with # and
# are ignored. Read man modules.autoload for additional details.

# For example:
# 3c59x
lpfc

Have a nice day.

dweigert · Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:47 pm Post subject:

Just a side note, I have my Clariion 5600 up and running, I have my tape drive on the SAN and I have the Emulex drivers working just fine. If anyone has any more questions, I'll give my best shot answering therm.

Dan
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