Bug#607772: bnx2: Can't load firmware file from initrd on bootup

[Ben Hall <bh@wetafx.co.nz>]

Package: firmware-bnx2
Version: 0.27
Severity: normal


The bnx2 firmware is not loaded from initrd on bootup.

The following message is logged:

Dec 22 09:00:38 waea kernel: [   61.457115] firmware: requesting bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw
Dec 22 09:00:38 waea kernel: [  121.988348] bnx2: Can't load firmware file bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw
Dec 22 09:00:38 waea kernel: [  121.988348] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:06:00.0 disabled
Dec 22 09:00:38 waea kernel: [  121.988348] bnx2: probe of 0000:06:00.0 failed with error -2

I've confirmed that the correct initrd is being used.

I've extracted the files from the initrd and the correct firmware is present:

/lib/firmware/bnx2-06-4.0.5.fw

If I rmmod and modprobe the bnx2 module after the system has finished booting it is able to load the firmware correctly.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.7
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

firmware-bnx2 depends on no packages.

firmware-bnx2 recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-bnx2 suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools          0.92o           tools for generating an initramfs
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd 2.6.26-13lenny2 Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64
ii  linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd 2.6.26-26lenny1 Linux 2.6.26 image on AMD64

-- no debconf information