Purpose
Release NVM update package for NMC-2501 , target version from 6.8 to 7.10
Target Audience
Everyone who needs to update NMC-2501 NVM from 6.8 to 7.10
Minimum requirement
- Advantech hardware NMC-2501 with nvm version 6.8 (package in this FAQ supports upgrade from 6.8 to 7.10 only.)
- Linux based OS
- i40e driver up to 2.7.12 or beyond
Quick Start Guide
Following table is the simple NVM upgrade command list, user can refer following Steps to look detail command responses
command | description |
# ethtool -i <upgraded NIC device name> | check upgraded LAN NVM version before executing NVM upgraded |
# tar zxvf nmc2501.tgz | Decompress NVM file |
# cd nmc2501 #./nvmupdate64e -l nmc-2501.log |
Execute NMC-2501 NVM upgrade |
Please AC cycle system when utility report Tool execution completed with the following status: All operations completed successfully. |
|
# ethtool -i <upgraded NIC device name> | check upgraded LAN NVM version after executing NVM upgraded |
Steps
- Download nmc2501.tgz from attachment
- Check current nvm version from one of Ethernet device of NMC-2501 (b60p0 is an example)
# ethtool -i b60p0
driver: i40e
version: 2.10.19.30
firmware-version: 6.80 0x800040fd 1.1691.0
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:60:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes
- Get in unzipped folder and run following command to execute update process ; You should understand which device is available to be updated.
"-l nmc-2501.log" specifies the log file for recording output from the nvmupdate utility, if NMC can't success to update NVM file, please forward this log file to Advantech AE (support@advantech-ncg.zendesk.com)
# ./nvmupdate64e -l nmc-2501.log
Intel(R) Ethernet NVM Update Tool
NVMUpdate version 1.35.42.7
Copyright (C) 2013 - 2020 Intel Corporation.
WARNING: To avoid damage to your device, do not stop the update or reboot or power off the system during this update.
Inventory in progress. Please wait [***-......]
Num Description Ver.(hex) DevId S:B Status
=== ================================== ============ ===== ====== ==============
01) Intel(R) I210 Gigabit Network 3.37(3.25) 1533 00:001 Update not
Connection available
02) Intel(R) I210 Gigabit Network 3.37(3.25) 1533 00:002 Update not
Connection available
03) Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X722 4.48(4.30) 37D3 00:064 Update not
for 10GbE SFP+ available
04) Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 6.128(6.80) 158B 00:096 Update
XXV710 for 25GbE SFP28 available
Options: Adapter Index List (comma-separated), [A]ll, e[X]it
Enter selection: 04 <-- please choose XXV710 device.
Would you like to back up the NVM images? [Y]es/[N]o: y <-suggset choose y
Update in progress. This operation may take several minutes.
[.....-****]
Num Description Ver.(hex) DevId S:B Status
=== ================================== ============ ===== ====== ==============
01) Intel(R) I210 Gigabit Network 3.37(3.25) 1533 00:001 Update not
Connection available
02) Intel(R) I210 Gigabit Network 3.37(3.25) 1533 00:002 Update not
Connection available
03) Intel(R) Ethernet Connection X722 4.48(4.30) 37D3 00:064 Update not
for 10GbE SFP+ available
04) Intel(R) Ethernet Controller 7.16(7.10) 158B 00:096 Update
XXV710 for 25GbE SFP28 successful
Reboot is required to complete the update process.
Tool execution completed with the following status: All operations completed successfully.
Press any key to exit.
- 4. Wait few minutes for completing the upgrade process, you will find “All operations completed successfully” shown on screen after it completed, and follow the message to exit the utility.
- 5. Power OFF and ON to apply the changes.
- 6. Check nvm version from one of Ethernet device of NMC-1011 (b60p0 as an example)
# ethtool -i b60p0
driver: i40e
version: 2.10.19.30
firmware-version: 7.10 0x80007cdc 1.1691.0
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:60:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes
- Check VPD info from Advantech network device (Assume device NMC-2501 on bus 60:00.0)
# lspci -s 60:00.0 -vvv | grep -i "Vendor specific"
[V0] Vendor specific: N250
[V1] Vendor specific: V7.10
[V2] Vendor specific: V7.10.01
Appedix :
Please refer to the following table to check network driver version and upgrade the latest driver.
Comments
0 comments
Please sign in to leave a comment.