[pve-devel] pve-kernel-2.6.32 :(squeeze-proxmox2): broadcom bnx2 firmware load error

[Dietmar Maurer]

> bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.1.6 (Mar 7, 2011)
> bnx2 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
> bnx2 0000:05:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw
> bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw"
> 
> 
> firmware is correctly installed
> 
> kvmtest:~# stat /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw
>   File: `/lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw'
>   Size: 92792           Blocks: 192        IO Block: 4096   regular file
> Device: fd00h/64768d    Inode: 2335586     Links: 1
> Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
> Access: 2011-08-25 07:03:26.000000000 +0200
> Modify: 2011-08-25 05:58:57.000000000 +0200
> Change: 2011-08-25 07:03:27.000000000 +0200
> 
> 
> 
> same kernel works fine on lenny (but load an another firmware)
> 
> 
> I see a similar bugreport on redhat bugzilla
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?format=multiple&id=678429
> 

Strange. Maybe the firmware blob is damaged somehow (try to get the original file form the verndor site):

I have:

md5sum /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw
9c7e3239decffc8d1a3cc515a6ccc4e8  /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw

Is that the same file distributed by the vendor?

> I'll try to investigated a little more

Thanks

- Dietmar