Networking issues in ASUS Pro WS WRX90E build

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Hi, I recently got a built PC with an ASUS Pro WS WRX90E-SAGE mobo and a Threadripper PRO 7975WX. I installed openSUSE TW on it and so far so good, except for the LAN networking. As I saw in the manuals, the system has a BMC and two 10G ethernet ports. However, when I plug an ethernet cable in any of the 10G ports the OS can’t assign an IP. In the BIOS, I can see that the system has dynamic IPs assigned (from y office lan) if I plug a cable to the BMC port and another cable to one of the 10G ports.

Is there a manual on how to setup BMC? or maybe how to use ipmitool in this system? The ASUS manuals do not have much information. I tried to assign an static IP to the system in the BIOS but I get an error if I set a random IP or one with the digits according to my LAN connection. I’m mostly interested in making the ethernet connection to work.

Just in case, in Linux I get this:

david ~> inxi -aNz
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8852BE PCIe 802.11ax Wireless Network vendor: AzureWave
    driver: rtw89_8852be v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
    port: 1000 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:b852 class-ID: 0280
  Device-2: Intel Ethernet X710 for 10GBASE-T driver: i40e v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4 port: N/A bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15ff
    class-ID: 0200
  Device-3: Intel Ethernet X710 for 10GBASE-T driver: i40e v: kernel pcie:
    gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 4 port: N/A bus-ID: 02:00.1 chip-ID: 8086:15ff
    class-ID: 0200
  Device-4: American Megatrends Virtual Ethernet. driver: cdc_ether
    type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 7-6.3:6
    chip-ID: 046b:ffb0 class-ID: 0a00 serial: <filter>

Cheers

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Decent first post

What you are describing is setting the IP address for the BMC.
Have you tried accessing the BMC?

Are you trying to get LAN working from the OS or BMC access?

Those 2 typically function independently.

BMC firmware typically requires a valid IP address in the reserved space to prevent reddit superusers from giving their BMC WAN IP addresses.

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Hi, yes, I’m trying to access the BMC. I first went to the BIOS configuration and everything has dhcp enabled. Then I tried ipmitool which I have tried to understand. As far as I have gone, is to print lan 1 (but I cannot find other lan, and the mobo has two entries) and set a dynamic IP, but still, I have no access to the internet.

Where can I obtain the reserved valid IPs I can set? Or should I just stick to dynamic IP?

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Leave it dynamic then on reboot, watch carefully and the BMC IP will show briefly on screen.
You can then use another computer to navigate to that IP address, login, and access the BMC.

Typically, loopback is disabled.

Alternatively you can access your router and watch for any IP addresses that were issued when you posted the machine. The BMC receives power even when the machine is shutdown but still connected to power so your IP lease will be from the time it was connected to the network and had power to the MoBo, not since the machine was booted up.

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