[PVE-User] Update/Alternative NetXen Firmware in pve-firmware

[Dietmar Maurer]

> Replacing the firmware using the one found in the HP driver package from [1]
> solved our problem. The driver package carries the version number
> 4.0.534 while the firmware in the pve-firmware package has version 4.0.517.
> Although I'm not sure whether the firmware works also with other NetXen-
> based OEM-NICs of the same type.
> 
> Can you maybe update the NetXen firmware in the pve-firmware package?
> If not, what do you propose to prevent our firmware to be ignored once we
> update pve-firmware again? (I currently removed the phanfw.bin manually
> to make sure nx3fwmn.bin gets loaded).

We use the latest available firmware form:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary

They (qlogic) should upload an updated version if they have one.

- Dietmar