Copied from Seth's upstream mailing list posting https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg521428.html
This is with a kernel based on 4.18.5, and it has also been seen with a 4.17-based kernel. I'm not currently aware of any working kernel version. The driver seems to be getting an error response from the firmware when trying to set the MAC address. [ 2.437420] Broadcom NetXtreme-C/E driver bnxt_en v1.9.1 [ 2.449820] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): hwrm req_type 0xf seq id 0x5 error 0xffff [ 2.455610] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): VF MAC address 00:00:17:02:05:d0 not approved by the PF [ 2.461443] bnxt_en 0000:00:03.0: Unable to initialize mac address. [ 2.483531] bnxt_en: probe of 0000:00:03.0 failed with error -99 Posting here in case @pgraydon-oracle has seen this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1790652 Title: Oracle cosmic image does not find broadcom network device in Shape VMStandard2.1 Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in linux source package in Cosmic: Triaged Bug description: I tried to register and boot a cosmic image to verify new changes in it and in cloud-init. The image failed to bring up networking in the initramfs, and thus failed to find iscsi root. this could be user error. Here is what I did to publish the image. - use oci build tool [1]. following https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/Compute/Tasks/imageimportexport.htm#ImportinganImage - Download a livefs build from cloudware https://launchpad.net/~cloudware/+livefs/ubuntu/cosmic/cpc/ example: livecd.ubuntu-cpc.oracle_bare_metal.img My image had version 20180821.1 - oci os bucket create --name=smoser-devel - oci os object put \ --parallel-upload-count=4 \ --part-size=10 \ --bucket-name=smoser-devel \ --file=/tmp/livecd.ubuntu-cpc.oracle_bare_metal.img \ --name=cosmic-20180821.1.img - import the object $ oci compute image import from-object \ --display-name=smoser-cosmic-20180821.1.img \ --launch-mode=NATIVE \ --namespace=intcanonical \ --bucket-name=smoser-devel \ --name=cosmic-20180821.1.img \ --source-image-type=QCOW2 Then I launched from the web UI a VM.Standard2.1. -- https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/cliconcepts.htm To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1790652/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
