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Fixing no carrier with Flypro 10GBASE-T SFP+ on a Dell-branded X520-DA2 under Debian and FreeBSD/OPNsense

A Dell-branded Intel X520-DA2 with Flypro 10GBASE-T SFP+ modules showed no carrier (or no interface at all) on Debian and on FreeBSD-based OPNsense because the card rejects unapproved modules. The post collects the per-OS fixes and the permanent EEPROM approach. Hardware involved: Dell-branded…

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XCP-ng with X520-DA2 and Finisar SFP+: allow_unsupported_sfp must be set per port on the kernel command line

An XCP-ng host with an Intel X520-DA2 and Finisar SFP+ transceivers logged failed to load because an unsupported SFP+ or QSFP module type was detected. insmod with allowunsupportedsfp=1 failed with Unknown symbol in module; options ixgbe allowunsupportedsfp=1 in /etc/modprobe.d/ixgbe-options.conf…

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Proxmox VE 6: X520-DA2 fails to load because an unsupported SFP+ or QSFP module type was detected

On Proxmox VE 6.0 (kernel 5.0.18-1-pve, ixgbe 5.1.0-k) an Intel X520-DA2 exposed ens1f0/ens1f1 but any inserted third-party SFP+ module produced failed to load because an unsupported SFP+ or QSFP module type was detected, and the driver had to be reloaded to detect module changes at all. Hardware…

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