tl;dr: Does anyone know where I can find a copy of Mellanox Firmware Tools that will work with a ConnectX-2?
I recently bought a custom CX-2 (specifically, model # MCQH29-XFR) as a mezzanine card for a Dell PowerEdge C6220 II. The card fits physically just fine, and both Windows and Debian recognize it, but they both recognize it as an Infiniband adapter, and I want to use it for Ethernet. According to the manual I found for the card, if it's labeled with both a MAC address and a GUID, it can do both Infiniband and Ethernet, and it is so labeled.
So download MFT and use mlxconfig to change the setting, right? Not so fast. The CX-2 cards are old, and according to the MFT release notes, support for them was removed in MFT 4.0. The last prior release was 3.8.0, and by implication, that release should have supported the CX-2 cards. So off to find a download of 3.8.0, and Google shows me this. But when I install it, it says it only supports the CX-3 and CX-3 Pro cards, and doesn't recognize mine at all.
So, does anyone have, or know where I can find, a package for MFT that will support the CX-2 cards? Or an alternative way to configure the card? I'm OS-neutral here; Windows, Linux, even FreeBSD would work.
I recently bought a custom CX-2 (specifically, model # MCQH29-XFR) as a mezzanine card for a Dell PowerEdge C6220 II. The card fits physically just fine, and both Windows and Debian recognize it, but they both recognize it as an Infiniband adapter, and I want to use it for Ethernet. According to the manual I found for the card, if it's labeled with both a MAC address and a GUID, it can do both Infiniband and Ethernet, and it is so labeled.
So download MFT and use mlxconfig to change the setting, right? Not so fast. The CX-2 cards are old, and according to the MFT release notes, support for them was removed in MFT 4.0. The last prior release was 3.8.0, and by implication, that release should have supported the CX-2 cards. So off to find a download of 3.8.0, and Google shows me this. But when I install it, it says it only supports the CX-3 and CX-3 Pro cards, and doesn't recognize mine at all.
So, does anyone have, or know where I can find, a package for MFT that will support the CX-2 cards? Or an alternative way to configure the card? I'm OS-neutral here; Windows, Linux, even FreeBSD would work.