Bug#638921: firmware-netxen: HP NC375i network card fails to autonegotiate with a 100full cisco switch
Package: firmware-netxen
Version: 0.28
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system
The HP NC375i network card on an HP ML370 G6 server with Debian squeeze OS installed as problems.
The server is connected to a switch that does only 100/full and it fails to
autonegotiate correctly during reboot. A network connection can be used if the switch side gets locked to 100 half however which seems to be what the HP card assumes if negotiaton fails. The HP card seems to assume a speed of 1000 which is incorrect. It should learn a speed of 100 advertised by the switch which it fails to do.
Certain ethtool and miitool functions do not seem to work such as ethtool -s (you can't set any parameters at all). ethtool -t also fails.
A perhaps related issue is that during install nx3fwct.bin is requested by the installer but are not available in the non-free zip file. I tried 2 different installs, both which failed; one involved skippin that file during the install by just hitting next at the installer prompt; the other way involved extracting the file from an rpm provided for redhat installs...I got that RPM from the HP website, hp-nx-nic-tools_4.0_520-6_all.rpm
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/24 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
firmware-netxen depends on no packages.
firmware-netxen recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-netxen suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.98.8 tools for generating an initramfs
ii linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 [l 2.6.32-35 Linux 2.6.32 for 64-bit PCs
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