I’ve got an AADP and an AVA Developer Kit - my AADP didn’t have the option for the 4x10G OCP card when I ordered it, but the AVA did.
Anywho - I swapped the OCP NIC into the AADP, to have a big ol 128C/386GB/40Gbit/2xGPU system…except it’s not showing up at all?
Lights are on every port, I’ve reseated it just in case - but it doesn’t show up in the Platform Config/BIOS area, nor does it show anywhere on a booted host.
Is there anything special I need to do to get this OCP NIC to work? Looked for UEFI drivers but couldn’t find anything
Yeah, tried a couple OSes and neither saw the device even on the bus.
I plugged my AVA in and check it out - it still has the NIC identity/drivers loaded, they show in the Network Device List of the BIOS, just some things show as missing.
I looked for drivers that match the reported NIC, “Broadcom BCM57502 NetXtreme E-Series 50Gb Ethernet Controller” but no dice.
It seems as if the AVA/AADP COM-HPC systems don’t allow for standard UEFI driver loading, and what’s configured out of the factory is flashed to the system.
I’ve abandoned the idea of using the OCP slot and rehoming the NIC. I just dropped a couple of Intel NICs in there and called it a day. These platforms have been disappointing.
ADLINK 4x10GbE adapter for AADP / AVA is “OCP inspired” not a regular OCP NIC. It uses broadcom BCM57504 100GbE on the COM-HPC module. Probably one of your modules has BCM57504 and the other does not. You can tell by looking here:
