Bug#488265: linux-image-2.6-amd64-etchnhalf: Problem using bnx2 module
On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 09:39:25PM +0300, Evaggelos Souglakos wrote:
> Hello,
> I have already installed the firmware-bnx2 package
>
> dpkg -l |grep bnx
> ii firmware-bnx2 0.11~bpo40+1 Binary firmware
> for Broadcom NetXtremeII
You need the one from proposed-updates. The one in sid only works with
an initramfs-tools package version that knows how to copy firmware
files over. The one in proposed-updates provides its own hook to work
with etch's initramfs-tools.
> dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2.6-amd64-etchnhalf
> ii linux-image-2.6-amd64-etchnhalf 2.6.24+13~etchnhalf.1 Linux
> 2.6-etchnhalf image on AM
>
> but on kernel boot i can still see:
>
> bnx2: Can't load firmware file bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw
>
> Is it supposed to get these files from /lib/firmware?
>
> As you can see there are at this dir.
>
> ls -l /lib/firmware/
> total 216
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 106116 Jun 5 11:29 bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 102844 Jun 5 11:29 bnx2-09-4.0.5.fw
>
> I would appreciate any further help
>
> Thank you,
>
> On Friday 27 June 2008 18:27:17 dann frazier wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:03:36PM +0300, Evaggelos Souglakos wrote:
> > > Package: linux-image-2.6-amd64-etchnhalf
> > > Version: 2.6.24+13~etchnhalf.1
> > > Severity: important
> > >
> > >
> > > bnx2 modules is useless on this kernel package
> > >
> > > Loading Linux version 2.6.24-etchnhalf.1-amd64 (Debian
> > > 2.6.24-6~etchnhalf.3) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115
> > > (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP
> > >
> > > It is an ibm x3650 server
> > >
> > > bnx2: Can't load firmware file bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw
> > > ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:04:00.0 disabled
> > > bnx2: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -2
> >
> > You need to install the firmware-bnx2 package from non-free. See the
> > release notes draft here:
> > http://people.debian.org/~dannf/tmp/etchnhalf/
>
>
>
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dann frazier
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