Bug#1123591: reportbug: Kernel 6.17.11 "ixgbe"-driver broken (OEM Intel X540-AT2 card)

From	Radostin Dimitrov <radostin.m.dimitrov@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject	Bug#1123591: reportbug: Kernel 6.17.11 "ixgbe"-driver broken (OEM Intel X540-AT2 card)
Date	2025-12-18 19:00 +0100
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Hi, Bastian !

Thanks for your swift reply, appreciated.
Well, I have been using this Intel-card for several years now (I think at
least 2 years),
going through Deb 12 / 13 / even Sid and never got any issues. I think it
broke yesterday,
when I updated my Forky and kernel 6.17.11 got in. At first, I wondered if
it was my router or switch that needed a reboot :)
To confirm, I don't find this being a hardware fault, since the card
continues working under Win11 (from which I am now writing to you).

Debian's boot goes normal, the ixgbe-driver load succeeds and the desktop
gets fully loaded (Plasma 6).
I was at something, when I suddenly got network issues - browser stopped
loading, or was it Steam ?
Anyway, it was exactly then, when I fired up dmesg and saw these lines :

"Adapter removed
Warning firmware error detected FWSM: some hex"

I need to reboot my machine, boot Deb with this NIC again, so that I
provide you with the exact dmesg-messages.
Please, tell me what log(s) you need to collect, since I generally do not
configure logging and rarely look at logs, thanks !

Cheers,
Radi

On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> wrote:

> Control: severity -1 important
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> Please provide some information.  What is broken.  How is it broken.
> Since when is it broken.  And the complete kernel log.
>
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 04:59:02PM +0200, Radostin Dimitrov wrote:
> > BOOT_IMAGE=/@rootfs/boot/vmlinuz-6.17.11+deb14-amd64
> root=/dev/mapper/Debian--VG-Slash ro rootflags=subvol=@rootfs
> ipv6.disable=1 ipv6.disable=1
>
> ipv6.disable=1 is unsupported.
>
> > ** Tainted: OE (12288)
> >  * externally-built ("out-of-tree") module was loaded
> >  * unsigned module was loaded
>
> You have proprietary modules loaded.  Does it also fail without?
>
> > *** Device statistics:
> > Inter-|   Receive                                                |
> Transmit
> >  face |bytes    packets errs drop fifo frame compressed multicast|bytes
>   packets errs drop fifo colls carrier compressed
> >     lo:    5172      22    0    0    0     0          0         0
>  5172      22    0    0    0     0       0          0
> > enp7s0: 219441861  176209    0    0    0     0          0        33
> 10934918   26034    0    0    0     0       0          0
> > enp6s0f0:       0       0 8589934590 34359738360    0 8589934590
>   0 4294967295        0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
> > enp6s0f1:       0       0 8589934590 34359738360    0 8589934590
>   0 4294967295        0       0    0    0    0     0       0          0
>
> Okay, the error counters are pretty high.
>
> Bastian
>
> --
> ... The prejudices people feel about each other disappear when they get
> to know each other.
>                 -- Kirk, "Elaan of Troyius", stardate 4372.5
>

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