Drivers for Qlogic qle2562

[Ellusionist]

Hello Everybody,

Just wanted to see if anyone has successful installed a driver for a Qlogic qle2562 Fiber Channel Card in Freenas? Not sure if this will work with Freenas or if I will have to compile a driver.

I have two Cisco UCS C220 with ESX and these cards, connecting to the Freenas server with iSCSI is the plan. If I can get Freenas to recognize the qle2562.

Thanks!

 

[Ericloewe]

Hello Everybody,

Just wanted to see if anyone has successful installed a driver for a Qlogic qle2562 Fiber Channel Card in Freenas? Not sure if this will work with Freenas or if I will have to compile a driver.

I have two Cisco UCS C220 with ESX and these cards, connecting to the Freenas server with iSCSI is the plan. If I can get Freenas to recognize the qle2562.

Thanks!

You'd have to compile FreeNAS with the driver included.

 

[Ellusionist]

Looks like the 24xx Qlogic cards are support in isp(4).. Anyway to get the 25xx supported on Freenas in a future upgrade? Looks like there is some form of support it in FreeBSD...

 

[cyberjock]

FreeNAS doesn't inherently support FC.

You are welcome to put a ticket in at bugs.freenas.org and request it as a feature.

 

[Ellusionist]

Do you think it is too much of a pain to work on this for this one instance or would you look to other options such at 10Gb for the time being? I'm hearing it will take about 3 hours to complete... I would have to recompile the kernel with the correct driver to support them..

Aside from the driver is there anything else you think I would need to correct to get this working?

I'll drop in a feature request also.

 

[cyberjock]

No way to know for certain, but my first guess is this is a lost cause. FreeNAS doesn't do FC out of the box, so you're probably talking about a serious uphill battle unless you are a FreeBSD wiz.

And because FC isn't supported there's a really good chance that your feature request is going to be closed to "not gonna fix" because they don't want to support FC. But do put the ticket in and let the developers make that decision. ;)

 

[Ellusionist]

So this is going to drive me nuts...

[root@nas2] /boot# ls -lh /boot/kernel/isp*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1.5M Aug 6 22:05 /boot/kernel/ispfw.ko*

So the driver is there, I believe.

 

[Ellusionist]

Doing a kidload of ispfw

Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_1040>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_1040_it>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_1080>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_1080_it>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_12160>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_12160_it>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2100>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2200>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2300>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2322>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2400>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2400_multi>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2500>
Oct 6 16:02:51 nas2 kernel: ispfw: registered firmware <isp_2500_multi>

What am I missing to get it working....

 

[cyberjock]

Umm.... the fact that more often than not you can't grab a .ko and use it with FreeNAS and expect it to work. If you want a driver that is going to work you have to download the freenas source code, add the driver code, then compile freenas with the new driver for you.

 

[Ellusionist]

So,

I did some more digging last night and I did find this bug already resolved. Looks like the driver is coming in 9.3?

Thread
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...with-fc-attached-drives-not-showing-up.15017/

Bugs
https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/5886
https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/3196

Here the out put from the dmesg log if anyone is curious...

isp_2500_multi: could not load firmware image, error 2
isp_2500: could not load firmware image, error 2
isp0: Polled Mailbox Command (0x8) Timeout (100000us) (started @ isp_reset:1045)
isp0: Mailbox Command 'ABOUT FIRMWARE' failed (TIMEOUT)
device_attach: isp0 attach returned 6

 

[dabird]

I've been waiting for freenas to fix this for quite a while. Been periodically checking for an official fix for all those HBAs (2 and 4 Gig) no longer supported but still work in 9.X BSD. Grr! I've got a fist full of QLA 4 gig cards and the quickest way to get up and running on my freenas 9.x is to boot CentOS 6.4 CD then reboot and choose (F12) the FreeNAS disk to boot off. PITA, but CentOS initializes the cards and FN detects the FC disk just ducky. Sux when there's a power outage or power down, but FN reboots always work.
Just thought I would share my workaround for those who enjoy playing with Ebay'ed enterprise HW and not the toys most people use here at BB or the white box shops.

7x2G WD EARs in a Sun FCAL->SATA 6140 Array. using QLOGIC ISP2432-based 4Gb Fibre Channel to PCI Express HBA on a
AMD A4-3400. Yes, enterprise meets White Box low powered world :p

Cheers!