Question SolarFlare 10gbe adapter software

[R81Z3N1]

I have two Solarflare sfn 5322F 10gbe network adapters, looking for compatible Windows 10 drivers. these are end of life, and are not included in any of the drivers on official nic.xilinx.com site.

If you look at the release notes, I can not find any viable drivers that are listed. Using a simple search can't find any of the previous generations as well. The links I find, are dead and no longer work. When I install the drivers, I do not have a working network card. I have two entries in device manager as unknown devices.

Linux is a bit better, I can find openonload software that should work, they are all older but code is viable I hope. But I need the windows drivers to have a full working connection. Now searching VMware site I can find drivers that should work, but I don't have any VMware software installed, feel kind of stupid if I have to install a VM just to get the drivers, which may or may not work outside the VM.

If installing VMware solves the problem, that could be a good solution, but in general I don't like running VM's on top of windows, the thought just makes me cringe.

R81Z3N1

 

[JackMDS]

If you made a typo and you meant Solarflare SFN5122F

Here is a page with Windows Drivers for the 5000 line.

https://support-nic.xilinx.com/wp/drivers

 

[R81Z3N1]

Nope I do have a sfn 5322f card, here is a link to a pdf:

https://www.colfaxdirect.com/store/pc/catalog/Solarflare_SFN5322F_FAQs.pdf

As a follow up, I downloaded VMWare workstation 16 player, and they do not use esx drivers. They rely on what Windows provides. Unless I want to install full esx instance, and pay for a license it looks like no way to get a working driver for Windows.

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