Like the title says. I installed a GPU, everything posts and boots fine. The lights on the Ethernet port are lit up and will stay lit up indefinitely (I assume) if I leave it at the kernel select screen.

But as soon as I load a kernel, the lights go dark. It also is not shown as an active client on my gateway, so it’s not working at all.

I’ve tried lots of commands I’ve found to force it up. It looks to me like the NIC assigned to vmbr0 is correct. Etc. I just can’t get it to work.

If I remove the GPU, it immediately works again. NIC stays up after the kernel loads and I can access the web UI as normal.

rooteprox. *

root@prox:*# ip a

  1. 10: «LOOPBACK, UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
    valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 :: 1/128 scope host noprefixroute valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
  2. enpsso: ‹BROADCAST, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOHN group default qlen 1000 link/ether a8:a1:59:be:f2:33 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    enp0s31f6: «NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master vmbro state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether a8:a1:59:be:f2:32 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    vmbrO: ‹NO-CARRIER, BROADCAST, MULTICAST, UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state DOWN group default qlen 1000 link/ether a8:a1:59:be:f2:32 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.3/24 scope global vmbro valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

root@prox: *# cat /etc/network/interfaces

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback

iface enp0s31f6 inet manual

auto vmbro

iface vmbro inet static

address 192.168.1.3/24

gateway 192.168.1.1

bridge-ports enp0s31f6

bridge-stp off bridge-fd o

iface enps0 inet manual

source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*

root@prox: ~# service network restart

Failed to restart network.service: Unit network.service not found.

  • @[email protected]
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    Check what changes in lspci command between not having the GPU connected vs. Having it connected.

    I am suspecting that your PCI-E bandwidth is getting exhausted once the kernel activates your GPU.

    Edit: Although I could be wrong about this. So makes sense to try passing “nomodeset” to your kernel parameters and see if that changes anything.

    • @nemaninOP
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      35 months ago

      Ok. I’ll check it out.

      Let’s say it is exhausted… what will get me more bandwidth? CPU or mobo…?

      Only other pci-e card in at the moment is 16 line HBA seems to be basically 2 cards sandwiched on one board)…

      • @SzethFriendOfNimi
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        Possible something on your motherboard has PCIe lanes that are dedicated to GPU when it’s slotted, otherwise they can be used for other devices?

        For example here’s a post about m.2 slots that, when used, affect the PCI on a particular board. May be worth checking your boards manual to see if there’s something similar.

        https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/questions-about-a-mb-im-looking-at-asrock-z790-pg-riptide.3787003/

        The answer not only seemed a HUGE disappointment, but a bit baffling. The pdf manual says if you occupy that 5th m.2 slot, which is the Gen 5 one, the Pci-E 1 slot is automatically downgraded to 8x. This I thought would be unacceptable if running a behemoth like the RTX 4090 I eventually plan to get, as it requires a lot of power and bandwidth.

    • @nemaninOP
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      15 months ago

      It’s late. I’ll have to pull the card and re run tomorrow. But here’s with the GPU in:

      It’s an i7-14700 and an ASRock z690 extreme. I’m actually hoping to put a second GPU in the last PCIe slot so I can let proxmox use the iGPU, pass the 3060 into a Unix moonlight gaming VM, and pass an RX590 into a hackintosh VM.

      • Sabata
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        15 months ago

        I had an issue with an ASrock Tiachi where if I enabled virtualization, the network would disappear entirely. May want to check for FW updates for your board. I had nothing but issues with the shitty BIOS and even had to upgrade my CPU sooner than I wanted to do the update.

        Make sure your CPU is still supported by the update.

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      15 months ago

      Aren’t the PCIe lanes directly connected to the CPU? So the connections would be rerouted in hardware to connect to the GPU?

      I am not the poster but I am curious if you know what maybe happening on a hardware level.

      • mbfalzar
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        There’s generally one or two slots connected directly to the CPU running in x16 or x8 if there’s two and both are connected, 4 lanes linking the CPU to the chipset, and the rest of the slots connect to the chipset and share that same x4 link. If your cpu has 24 lanes (Ryzen do/did a few years ago, Intel might but didn’t a few years ago), the remaining 4 lanes usually go to an NVMe slot

  • @barsquid
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    I had a stock Debian install actually rename the device for my NIC when I changed GPUs. You should double-check if your NIC has the same entry in /dev with and without the GPU. After I changed the name in some config files the NIC worked fine with the GPU in, it could be easy as that.

    • @barsquid
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      55 months ago

      I read through your screenshot. The ip command has enp3s0 and the config has enp2s0, I think this might be it.

      • @nemaninOP
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        45 months ago

        Ohhh. In that last line. I wasn’t even looking at that, I assumed the block above that was setting up the primary NIC…

        I’ll see if changing that interface name does it…

        • 🐍🩶🐢
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          25 months ago

          I changed my settings to name nic cards by mac address instead of the enumeration as I got sick of the name changing when I would add/remove pci devices.

          • @nemaninOP
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            15 months ago

            How do you do this? Idk what to even google, exactly.

            • 🐍🩶🐢
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              I am not at home, but what I did was change the 99-default.link file. I found this from the two pages below. https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames#CUSTOM_SCHEMES_USING_.LINK_FILES https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames

              Basically, by doing this, your nic cards will be forcibly named using the mac address:

              #/etc/systemd/network/99-default.link
               [Match]
               OriginalName=*
              
               [Link]
               NamePolicy=mac
               MACAddressPolicy=persistent
              

              Afterwards, you will need to reboot and then update your network config file to use the correct names. I don’t ever change the network config with the GUI in proxmox as it has wrecked it too many times. I will update this reply again later with some more information on what to do.

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              Sorry, didn’t make it home until today and not sure if you get notifications on edits. You will need a monitor and keyboard hooked up to your server as you will not have ssh access until the network config is “fixed”. I would do the below with the GPU removed, so you know 100% that your networking config is correct before mucking about further.

              Step 1 - Create 99-default.link file

              Add a /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link with the below contents.

              # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0
               #
               # This config file is installed as part of systemd.
               # It may be freely copied and edited (following the MIT No Attribution license).
               #
               # To make local modifications, one of the following methods may be used:
               # 1. add a drop-in file that extends this file by creating the
               #    /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link.d/ directory and creating a
               #    new .conf file there.
               # 2. copy this file into /etc/systemd/network or one of the other paths checked
               #    by systemd-udevd and edit it there.
               # This file should not be edited in place, because it'll be overwritten on upgrades.
              
               [Match]
               OriginalName=*
              
               [Link]
               NamePolicy=mac
               MACAddressPolicy=persistent
              

              Step 2 - Reboot and find new name of NIC that will be based on MAC

              I forget if you have to reboot, but I am going to assume so. At this point, you can get the new name of your nic card and fix your network config.

              1. ip link should list all of your nic devices, both real and virtual. Here is how mine looks like for reference, with the MAC obfuscated:
              1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
                  link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
              2: enxAABBCCDDEEFF: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master vmbr0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
                  link/ether AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
              3: vmbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
                  link/ether AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
              

              Step 3 - Fix your network config and restart network manager

              You will need to edit your /etc/network/interfaces file so the correct card is used.

              1. Make a copy of /etc/network/interfaces, just in case you mess something up.
              2. sudo vim /etc/network/interfaces (or whatever text editor makes you happy) It will need to look something like below. I have to have DHCP turned on for mine, so your config likely uses static. Really all you need to do is change wherever it says enp yada yada to the enxAABBCCDDEEFF you identified above.
               source /etc/network/interfaces.d/*
              
               auto lo
               iface lo inet loopback
              
               iface enxAABBCCDDEEFF inet manual
              
               auto vmbr0
               iface vmbr0 inet dhcp
               #iface vmbr0 inet static
               #address 192.168.5.100/20
               #gateway 192.168.0.1
                   bridge-ports enxAABBCCDDEEFF
                   bridge-stp off
                   bridge-fd 0
              
              1. Restart your networking service. You shouldn’t need to reboot. sudo systemctl restart networking.service

              Step 4 - Profit?

              Hopefully at this point you have nework access again. Check the below, do some ping tests, and if it doesn’t work, double check that you edited the interfaces file correctly.

              1. sudo systemctl status networking.service will show you if anything went wrong and hopefully show that everything is working correctly
              2. ip -br addr show should show that the interface is up now.
              lo               UNKNOWN        127.0.0.1/8 ::1/128
              enxAABBCCDDEEFF  UP
              vmbr0            UP             192.168.5.100/20 
              

              At this point, if all is well, I would reboot anyways, just to make sure. If you add any GPUs, sata drives, other PCI device, disable/enable wifi/bt in the BIOS, or anything else that changes the PCI numbering, you don’t have to worry about your NIC changing.

              • @nemaninOP
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                15 months ago

                Will give this a go! thanks!

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    45 months ago

    Like others have said you may be running out of PCIe lanes. If that isn’t the problem and this is a software bug you could try blocklisting the GPU kernel module.

  • @[email protected]
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    35 months ago

    check lsmod before and after see what kernel modules are changing.

    also look at dmesg for interesting kernel messages as you attempt to use / not use the offending hardware.

    • @nemaninOP
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      I have no experience with dmesg and also don’t know how to scroll the history since I’m not on a terminal app (since I can’t get the NIC up).

      Anything here helpful?

      • @[email protected]
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        25 months ago

        dmesg | less should allow you to scroll the output. You should use forward slash in less to search for the devices (hit enter), see if the modules are being loaded or if there some errors.

  • @hungover_pilot
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    Is the NIC built into the motherboard or an add on pcie card?

    You could check the journal to see if the logs tell you anything.

    • @nemaninOP
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      15 months ago

      ASRock Z90 Extreme.

      Has 2 built in NICs. The intel 1g and the Broadcom 2.5g.

      Trying to use the Broadcom here, though my Ethernet is only 1g house wide, so I could try the intel if that seems like it could help…

      • subignition
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        I don’t think you’ll benefit at all from using the 2.5Gbit port if you only have 1Gbit cables, so there’s no downside

        • @Daughter3546
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          I am pretty sure 2.5GBe will work over normal/standard CAT5 and Cat5e cable. It’s the upstream switch that you’ll need to replace.

  • @nemaninOP
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    So in the end, the intel 1g NIC just worked, so I gave up for now on trying to get the 2.5g Broadcom working instead.

    I might try to link aggregate later and use the 2.5g Broadcom and circle back on this… but we’ll see.

    I also got the second GPU installed and it shows up, too. But it’s an Rx590 and is showing as an RTX2070… so I’ll be making another post shortly!

    Thanks for all the input!

  • @[email protected]B
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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, automates assignment of IPs when connecting to a network
    NVMe Non-Volatile Memory Express interface for mass storage
    PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express

    3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.

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