Solarflare S7120 won't start in windows

[jimmyjoe]

Hi All,

I'm a newbie with regards to 10Gbe. I bought some of these off ebay:
Solarflare SFN7501 S7120 Dual Port Network Adapter w/SFM10G SR Transceiver | eBay

I installed the card in a Windows 10 machine and installed the Solarflare Windows x64 (64-bit) Driver Package software from Solarflare from here:
Windows

I don't see the card listed in device manager under network adapters and when I try to run sfupdate it tells me "There are no accessible network adapters in this computer"

Hardware info:
Motherboard ASRock B450 Steel Legend
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Video Card: Geforce GTX 1060 (1st PCIe X 16 slot)
Solarflare card is in the 2nd PCIe X16 Slot

Some things I see when I run the Solarflare system report:
Solarflare PCI devices
DeviceID Description ConfigManagerErrorCode
PCI\VEN_1924&DEV_0903&SUBSYS_80071924&REV_01\000F53FFFF25560000 Solarflare SFC9120 Controller 10
PCI\VEN_1924&DEV_0903&SUBSYS_80071924&REV_01\000F53FFFF25560001 Solarflare SFC9120 Controller 10

Recent events logged from Solarflare adapters
TimeGenerated SourceName Type EventCode Message Data
20200119155203.727855-000 SFCBUS Error 8 Solarflare SFC9120 Controller #2: The device could not be started. 0,0,4,0,2,0,52,0,0,0,0,0,8,0,1,224,0,0,0,0,34,0,0,192,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,9,0,0,0
20200119155202.474916-000 SFCBUS Error 8 Solarflare SFC9120 Controller: The device could not be started. 0,0,4,0,2,0,52,0,0,0,0,0,8,0,1,224,0,0,0,0,34,0,0,192,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,9,0,0,0

Any ideas? Thank you!

Best Regards,
Jimmy

 

[jimmyjoe]

I was able to get it to work in Windows 10. I put the card in a Windows 7 machine and it was recognized after install drivers, used sfupdate to update the firmware and then reinstalled in the Windows 10 machine and now it works.

 

[ewer0012]

Nice, glad you got it working. I had to do that with several of the Solarflare cards that I have with Ubuntu.