[dpdk-dev] Issue with binding NIC of type 82545EM to dpdk

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 3/29/2016 3:11 PM, Al Patel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having an issue with binding a nic of type 82545EM to dpdk. I am using
> a
> fedoracore23 VM on MAC with VMFusion.
> 
> ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0
> Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver uio_pci_generic
> Error: unbind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot open
> /sys/bus/pci/drivers//unbind
> 
> it is unbound from e1000, repeating the command:
> 
> ./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b uio_pci_generic 0000:02:02.0
> Error: bind failed for 0000:02:02.0 - Cannot bind to driver uio_pci_generic
> 
> I repeated the same test on a ubuntu vm running on Virtualbox with
> NIC type 82450EM
> 
> In this case, the device is able to bind successfully to uio_pci_generic
> driver.
> 
> There is a igb_uio module that present. The device cannot be bound to the
> igb_uio
> driver.

Hi Al,

You are trying to bind to the driver "uio_pci_generic" not to the
"igb_uio", is it typo? If not, can you please double check if
"uio_pci_generic" module inserted.
Or bind device to "igb_uio":
"./dpdk_nic_bind.py -b igb_uio 0000:02:02.0"

Regards,
ferruh