SLES12SP3 -No network Comms 2-port 10GbE BaseT RJ45 Adapter

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server SLES for POWER
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Hi

I cannot seem to get my SLES 12 OS onto the network.
eth0 and eth1 are physical
eth2 + eth3 + eth4 are Virtual cards coming from the VIO servers on IBM Power8 Harwdare
dmesg output listed below.Any ideas what this could be?

REMOVED:/etc # cat SuSE-release
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 (ppc64le)
VERSION = 12
PATCHLEVEL = 3

REMOVED:~ # ip link list
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: eth3: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether b6:0d:02:b6:ba:02 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: eth2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether b6:0d:02:b6:ba:03 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
4: eth4: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether b6:0d:02:b6:ba:04 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
5: eth0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq portid 98be94604bb0 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 98:be:94:60:4b:b0 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: eth1: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq portid 98be94604bb2 state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 98:be:94:60:4b:b2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
REMOVED:~ #
REMOVED:~ # ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
Supported ports: [ TP ]
Supported link modes: 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
10000baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
1000baseT/Full
10000baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: Unknown!
Duplex: Unknown! (255)
Port: Twisted Pair
PHYAD: 16
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
MDI-X: Unknown
Supports Wake-on: d
Wake-on: d
Current message level: 0x00000000 (0)

    Link detected: no

REMOVED# ethtool -i eth0
driver: bnx2x
version: 1.712.30-0
firmware-version: bc 7.10.4 phy 1.34
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0002:01:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes

REMOVED:/etc # dmesg|egrep “bnx|eth”
[ 23.148093] bnx2x: QLogic 5771x/578xx 10/20-Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2x 1.712.30-0 (2014/02/10)
[ 23.155483] bnx2x 0002:01:00.0: msix capability found
[ 23.156231] bnx2x 0002:01:00.0: enabling device (0140 → 0142)
[ 23.165149] bnx2x 0002:01:00.0: ibm,query-pe-dma-windows(53) 10000 8000000 20000025 returned 0
[ 23.216101] bnx2x 0002:01:00.0: ibm,create-pe-dma-window(54) 10000 8000000 20000025 10 29 returned 0 (liobn = 0x70000025 starting addr = 8000000 0)
[ 23.375430] ibmveth: externally supported module, setting X kernel taint flag.
[ 23.375480] ibmveth: IBM Power Virtual Ethernet Driver 1.06
[ 23.464965] ibmveth 30000002 eth3: renamed from eth0
[ 25.068765] bnx2x 0002:01:00.0: Using 64-bit direct DMA at offset 800000000000000
[ 25.069193] bnx2x 0002:01:00.0: part number 0-0-0-0
[ 25.203063] ibmveth 30000003 rename3: renamed from eth1
[ 25.302799] ibmveth 30000004 eth4: renamed from eth2
[ 25.383856] ibmveth 30000003 eth2: renamed from rename3
[ 25.384022] bnx2x 0002:01:00.1: msix capability found
[ 25.384229] bnx2x 0002:01:00.1: enabling device (0140 → 0142)
[ 25.386959] bnx2x 0002:01:00.1: Using 64-bit direct DMA at offset 800000000000000
[ 25.387295] bnx2x 0002:01:00.1: part number 0-0-0-0
[ 148.734390] bnx2x 0002:01:00.0 eth0: using MSI-X IRQs: sp 39 fp[0] 41 … fp[7] 48
[ 149.854097] bnx2x 0002:01:00.1 eth1: using MSI-X IRQs: sp 49 fp[0] 51 … fp[7] 66
REMOVED:/etc #

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Hi!
Can you describe more precisely what you’ve tried so far? It seems as if the interfaces eth0 and eth1 are down, so have you tried to get them up?
In a second terminal session run tail -F /var/log/messages and then see what happens when you execute ifup eth0 in the first session. You can paste the output here, make sure to remove any sensitive data.

It also looks as if your network devices are renamed, probably because of udev rules:

Check /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules for anything you find strange or delete the entries if not needed, after making a backup copy of that file, of course. After cleaning up the udev rules I would reboot the VM to see the results.