Nevermind on this issue. Apparently this was related with a physical issue on the PCIe port. The testpmd and pktgen tool are now working fine.
EP From: Posadas, Emerson Sent: Friday, July 3, 2015 11:45 AM To: 'dev at dpdk.org' Cc: Richardson, Bruce Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Failed to initialize HW 0x10bc This is what I'm getting from the DEBUG_INIT and DEBUG_DRIVER flags turned on while running testpmd: PMD: e1000_setup_link_82571(): e1000_setup_link_82571 PMD: e1000_setup_link_generic(): e1000_setup_link_generic PMD: e1000_check_reset_block_generic(): e1000_check_reset_block PMD: e1000_setup_link_generic(): After fix-ups FlowControl is now = 3 PMD: e1000_setup_copper_link_82571(): e1000_setup_copper_link_82571 PMD: e1000_copper_link_setup_igp(): e1000_copper_link_setup_igp PMD: e1000_phy_hw_reset_generic(): e1000_phy_hw_reset_generic PMD: e1000_check_reset_block_generic(): e1000_check_reset_block PMD: e1000_get_hw_semaphore_82571(): e1000_get_hw_semaphore_82571 PMD: e1000_put_hw_semaphore_82571(): e1000_put_hw_semaphore_generic PMD: e1000_get_cfg_done_82571(): e1000_get_cfg_done_82571 PMD: e1000_get_cfg_done_82571(): MNG configuration cycle has not completed. PMD: e1000_copper_link_setup_igp(): Error resetting the PHY. PMD: e1000_clear_hw_cntrs_82571(): e1000_clear_hw_cntrs_82571 PMD: e1000_clear_hw_cntrs_base_generic(): e1000_clear_hw_cntrs_base_generic PMD: em_hw_init(): Hardware initialization failed PMD: eth_em_dev_init(): port_id 0 vendorID=0x8086 deviceID=0x10bc: failed to init HW EAL: Error - exiting with code: 1 Cause: Requested device 0000:03:00.0 cannot be used EP