Dell R730 Intel X710 NIC Driver/Firmware issue

Hi all,

I have some Dell R730 server with Intel(R) 10GbE 4P X710 NIC.

After rebooting the server few times, the NIC was not recognized. Using lspci, the NIC still there but the no ethernet interface there.

Can you help me to figure out how to fix this issue:

This is the log:

# lspci -nn | grep Eth

01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 [8086:1528] (rev 03)

01:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller 10-Gigabit X540-AT2 [8086:1528] (rev 03)

05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ [8086:1572] (rev 01)

05:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ [8086:1572] (rev 01)

05:00.2 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ [8086:1572] (rev 01)

05:00.3 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller X710 for 10GbE SFP+ [8086:1572] (rev 01)

07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1521] (rev 01)

07:00.1 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I350 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1521] (rev 01)

# dmesg | grep i40e

[    2.573228] i40e: Intel(R) Ethernet Connection XL710 Network Driver - version 1.0.11-k

[    2.573231] i40e: Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 Intel Corporation.

[    2.850749] i40e 0000:05:00.0: vpd r/w failed.  This is likely a firmware bug on this device.  Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.

[    2.903799] i40e 0000:05:00.0: vpd r/w failed.  This is likely a firmware bug on this device.  Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.

[    4.030433] i40e 0000:05:00.0: Initial pf_reset failed: -15

[    4.030618] i40e: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -15

[    4.228092] i40e 0000:05:00.1: vpd r/w failed.  This is likely a firmware bug on this device.  Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.

[    4.281144] i40e 0000:05:00.1: vpd r/w failed.  This is likely a firmware bug on this device.  Contact the card vendor for a firmware update.

[    5.994034] i40e 0000:05:00.1: Initial pf_reset failed: -15

[    5.994226] i40e: probe of 0000:05:00.1 failed with error -15

[    7.976317] i40e 0000:05:00.2: Initial pf_reset failed: -15

[    7.976492] i40e: probe of 0000:05:00.2 failed with error -15

[    9.962309] i40e 0000:05:00.3: Initial pf_reset failed: -15

[    9.962491] i40e: probe of 0000:05:00.3 failed with error -15