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Bug#591523: Additional Information



On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 10:22 +0200, mbodbg@gmx.net wrote:
> To work arround the problem, we installed Open Suse 11.3 on one of the
> Servers. The problem does not appear on this OS. I can see that the
> bnx driver and firmware are newer versions:
> 
> linux-vyse:~ # ethtool -i eth0
> driver: bnx2
> version: 2.0.9
> firmware-version: 5.2.7 bc 5.2.2 NCSI 2.0.8
> bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
> 
> Linux linux-vyse 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> 
> Is there a way to update debian to the same versions?

Linux 2.6.35 is in the 'experimental' suite.  You'll need to copy the
driver-loaded firmware from openSUSE (from the /lib/firmware/bnx2/
directory) as we haven't yet packaged the version required by 2.6.35.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.

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