Re: No link with BCM57412 (Broadcom Extreme NetXtreme-E 10Gb) [SOLVED]

[Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>]

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 11:19:10PM +0200, Mihaly Zachar wrote:
> I configured an IP in the ens2f1np1 anyway and what happened?
> It worked .. :(
>
> I thought that there should be link even if there is no IP configured...
> Lesson learned.

Interface won't report link until it's configured up; setting the IP 
implicitly configured it up. You could do that without setting an IP by 
running
	ip link set ens2f1np1 up
if you then run
	ip link 
it should report either LOWER_UP if the link is up or NO_CARRIER if the 
link is down.