Seeking help to configure DPDK 22 on Ubuntu 22.04.1 - "No probed ethernet devices"

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 12:52:28 -0400
Nishant Verma <vnish11 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If your NIC is not part of this, then yes it's NOT SUPPORTED officially.
> 
> https://core.dpdk.org/supported/
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Nishant
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 12:27 PM Aniket singh <aniketsingh84646 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi  Stephen,
> >
> > I did rebind the NIC's to vfio-pci using the
> > dpdk-devbind.py script.
> >
> > Does that mean both the NICs (I219-LM and I1210) are not supported by DPDK?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Aniket Singh
> >
> > On Fri, 6 Jun 2025 at 2:55 AM, Stephen Hemminger <  
> > stephen at networkplumber.org> wrote:  
> >  
> >> On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 23:23:39 +0530
> >> Aniket singh <aniketsingh84646 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>  
> >> > Hi Everyone,
> >> >
> >> > I'm trying to configure DPDK 22 on Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS and I'm facing an
> >> > issue when running the testpmd application.
> >> >
> >> > Whenever I execute:
> >> >
> >> >     sudo ./dpdk-testpmd
> >> >
> >> > I get the following error:
> >> >
> >> >     testpmd: No probed ethernet devices
> >> >
> >> > I've followed the setup steps from the DPDK documentation, including
> >> > hugepages allocation and binding NICs with vfio-pci, but still  
> >> encountering  
> >> > the same issue.
> >> >
> >> > Could someone please help point out what might be missing or guide me on
> >> > how to properly configure DPDK on this version of Ubuntu?
> >> >
> >> > I have tried on both these NICs:
> >> > 0000:00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection
> >> > (17) I219-LM (rev 11)
> >> > 0000:01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network
> >> > Connection (rev 03)
> >> >  
> >>
> >> You have to rebind the NIC's to vfio-pci to allow use by DPDK.
> >> Did you look at dpdk-devbind.py script?
> >>
> >> Also, some of the on board Ethernet controllers are not yet supported
> >> by DPDK. They fall under the igb driver, but the PCI id's are not listed.
> >> Needs backport from BSD or Linux driver for that.
> >>
> >>  

Use lspci to find the PCI id vendor then look at the source is the
definitive answer.
$ sudo ethtool -i enp87s0
...
bus-info: 0000:57:00.0

$ lspci -s 0000:57:00 -n
57:00.0 0200: 8086:125c (rev 04)

drivers/net $ git grep 125C
intel/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h:#define E1000_DEV_ID_I226_V                 0x125C
 $ git grep ID_I226_V
intel/e1000/base/e1000_api.c:   case E1000_DEV_ID_I226_V:
intel/e1000/base/e1000_hw.h:#define E1000_DEV_ID_I226_V                 0x125C
intel/e1000/igc_ethdev.c:       { RTE_PCI_DEVICE(IGC_INTEL_VENDOR_ID, E1000_DEV_ID_I226_V)  },   <<< yes