On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 21:47 +0200, Markus Bönke wrote: > Thanks for the info, I'll update the kernel. One question regarding > the firmware: > > # ethtool -i eth0 > driver: bnx2 > version: 2.0.2 > firmware-version: 5.2.2 NCSI 2.0.8 > bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 > voxtelo-webserver-1:~# > > We have a new Dell server with installed firmware version 5.2.2. If I > look debian package firmware-bnx2 lenny (stable) > (http://packages.debian.org/lenny/all/firmware-bnx2/filelist), I can > see it's version 4.0.5. Also the testing branch includes an older > version. Do you suggest to keep firmware 5.2.2 or should we downgrade > the firmware with one of the debian packages? These network adapters use several separate firmware images, each of which have their own version numbers. Some are required for net-booting and are stored in flash; others are only required by the Linux driver, which loads them from the filesystem. I believe that 'ethtool -i' shows the versions of the flash firmware only. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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