Can't turn on InfiniBand mode ConnectX-5 (Solved)

Hi there!
I cant turn on my card into InfiniBand mode
Card is found by lspci as
a1:00.0 Ethernet controller: Mellanox Technologies MT27800 Family [ConnectX-5]
Subsystem: Mellanox Technologies Device 0007
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 93, NUMA node 1
Memory at 71c7e000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Expansion ROM at 9e300000 [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [9c] MSI-X: Enable+ Count=64 Masked-
Capabilities: [c0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=18 <?>
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [150] Alternative Routing-ID Interpretation (ARI)
Capabilities: [1c0] #19
Capabilities: [230] Access Control Services
Kernel driver in use: mlx5_core
Kernel modules: mlx5_core

ibv_devinfo says:
$ ibv_devinfo
hca_id: mlx5_0
transport: InfiniBand (0)
fw_ver: 16.35.2000
node_guid: 1070:fd03:005e:42c0
sys_image_guid: 1070:fd03:005e:42c0
vendor_id: 0x02c9
vendor_part_id: 4119
hw_ver: 0x0
board_id: MT_0000000012
phys_port_cnt: 1
Device ports:
port: 1
state: PORT_ACTIVE (4)
max_mtu: 4096 (5)
active_mtu: 1024 (3)
sm_lid: 0
port_lid: 0
port_lmc: 0x00
link_layer: Ethernet

When I try to turn on InfiniBand mode, nothing happend:
$ mlxconfig -d /dev/mst/mt4119_pciconf0 set LINK_TYPE_P1=1

Device #1:

Device type: ConnectX5
Name: MCX516A-CCA_Ax
Description: ConnectX-5 EN network interface card; 100GbE dual-port QSFP28; PCIe3.0 x16; tall bracket; ROHS R6
Device: /dev/mst/mt4119_pciconf0

Configurations: Next Boot New
-E- The Device doesn’t support LINK_TYPE_P1 parameter

Hi,

The card you have is an ETH only card and not a VPI card (IB/ETH)

Thank for so sad answer.

So, I can’t connect it with InfiniBand switch? Only with other such card? And could you say what is its bandwidth?

It is a 100Gb Ethernet card.

It cannot be used in an infiniband setup.

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