Hi,
I'm helping in ESXi 5.1 U3 maintenance on two PE2950 with Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T cards.
When upgrading the FWs for different components I mentioned that the new firmware (bc 4.6.0 UMP 1.1.9) is not supporting WOL for the ESXi kernel:
~ # esxcli network nic get --nic-name=vmnic1
Advertised Auto Negotiation: true
Advertised Link Modes: 10baseT/Half, 10baseT/Full, 100baseT/Half, 100baseT/Full, 1000baseT/Full
Auto Negotiation: true
Cable Type: Twisted Pair
Current Message Level: 0
Driver Info:
Bus Info: 0000:09:00.0
Driver: bnx2
Firmware Version: bc 4.6.0 UMP 1.1.9
Version: 2.2.5k.v50.1
Link Detected: true
Link Status: Up
Name: vmnic1
PHYAddress: 1
Pause Autonegotiate: true
Pause RX: false
Pause TX: false
Supported Ports: TP
Supports Auto Negotiation: true
Supports Pause: true
Supports Wakeon: false
Transceiver: internal
Wakeon: None
~ #
The old FW, on the other identical server, is with full support:
~ # esxcli network nic get --nic-name=vmnic1
Advertised Auto Negotiation: true
Advertised Link Modes: 10baseT/Half, 10baseT/Full, 100baseT/Half, 100baseT/Full, 1000baseT/Full
Auto Negotiation: true
Cable Type: Twisted Pair
Current Message Level: -1
Driver Info:
Bus Info: 0000:09:00.0
Driver: bnx2
Firmware Version: bc 2.9.1
Version: 2.0.15g.v50.11-7vmw
Link Detected: true
Link Status: Up
Name: vmnic1
PHYAddress: 1
Pause Autonegotiate: true
Pause RX: false
Pause TX: false
Supported Ports: TP
Supports Auto Negotiation: true
Supports Pause: true
Supports Wakeon: true
Transceiver: internal
Wakeon: MagicPacket(tm)
~ #
Initially both cards were with the same driver version (2.0.15g.v50.11-7vmw) - even when I updated the card with new FW to the last ESXi 5.1 driver (2.2.5k.v50.1) the WOL feature was not available.
I was wondering if somebody can direct me to the right combination of FW and drivers in order to have the WOL available - it can be even older, but working versions.
Thank you in advance,
Alex