On some systems, such as the HP ProLiant DL980 G7 server, the QLogic cLOM8214 1/10GbE NIC initializes with link state down.
Workaround: To work around this
problem install the qlcnic driver module with the option
"use_msix=0". To do this, create the file
/etc/modprobe.d/qlcnic.conf
and ensure that
it contains the following line:
options qlcnic use_msi_x=0
For the change to take effect, you should reboot the server. To temporarily disable the option for the module without rebooting, you can perform the following steps:
# ifconfig ethx down # rmmod qlcnic # modprobe qlcnic use_msi_x=0
Bug 15865548 and 18072952