FS#19912 - Kernel update to 2.6.34-2 bnx2 firmware missing
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Opened by Fabiano Furtado (fusca) - Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 02:01 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 16:50 GMT
Opened by Fabiano Furtado (fusca) - Wednesday, 23 June 2010, 02:01 GMT
Last edited by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh) - Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 16:50 GMT
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This post http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99530 describes exactly the problem: "This morning I conducted a full system upgrade and in the process upgraded to kernel 2.6.34-2 and rebooted. Upon reboot ifconfig -a would not list any eth devices and only listed lo. So I poke around dmesg looking for eth and find nothing. So I find out my ethernet card by: Code: lspci | grep Ethernet 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11) Then I searched dmesg using: Code: dmesg | grep bnx2 Jun 21 12:43:58 kwond-arch1 kernel: bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.0.9 (April 27, 2010) Jun 21 12:43:58 kwond-arch1 kernel: bnx2 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 Jun 21 12:43:58 kwond-arch1 kernel: bnx2 0000:03:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j6.fw Jun 21 12:43:58 kwond-arch1 kernel: bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j6.fw" So it looks like in the kernel update, they neglected to put firmware in question in the package. So I searched around the net and found a rpm package that contained the firmware and copied it to my /lib/firmware/bnx2 and now I have my network connection again." Additional info: * package version(s): kernel 2.6.34 Steps to reproduce: pacman -Syu |
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Closed by Andrea Scarpino (BaSh)
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 16:50 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: firmware is provided by linux-firmware 20100623-1
Tuesday, 29 June 2010, 16:50 GMT
Reason for closing: Not a bug
Additional comments about closing: firmware is provided by linux-firmware 20100623-1
Ken Kawasaki (1):
pcnet_cs: add cis of KTI PE520 pcmcia network card
Michael Chan (2):
bnx2: Update firmwares and update version to 2.0.8.
bnx2: Update 5709 MIPS firmware and version to 2.0.15.
Vladislav Zolotarov (1):
bnx2x: Use firmware 5.2.13
One of the commits by Michael Chan is the one that contains the firmware file you miss. I wrote an email to the linux-firmware maintainer, and I can package a new linux-firmware package with the corrected files later.
pacman -U http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/any/linux-firmware-20100623-1-any.pkg.tar.xz
My missing file is bnx2-mips-09.5.0.0.j9.fw
Will this upgrade work for me?
The bnx2 module indeed only lists bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j9.fw, but the firmware archive only contains bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw, which is a newer version. It seems the j9 file was removed after 2.6.34 - it was never included in linux-firmware (only 09-5.0.0.j3 was).
However, it seems the driver will just use the newer firmware file without modifications, so you can just put a symlink from the j9 to the j15 in there. We should maybe backport this patch to 2.6.34: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blobdiff;f=drivers/net/bnx2.c;h=ab0068c7070a55f511277e0ee3460fa846543c50;hp=c281218f6d5e0b95f359663bfe757a1c599e5a18;hb=a931d294042b5bbd8e390c59741b968c11856ac1;hpb=b98eba52784fbd4a96241c5395c2c8d99fdb9433
We need to watch how many more of these failures we will get and try to fix them one by one.
I´ve just updated this new linux-firmware packge with pacman -U http://mirrors.kernel.org/archlinux/testing/os/any/linux-firmware-20100623-1-any.pkg.tar.xz and... I've got the same error!
After this, I've created the symlink ("... so you can just put a symlink from the j9 to the j15 in there. ...") like above and my eth0 is back BUT I got a DNS error! Simply my server doesn't respont to any DNS request.
Example:
ping www.google.com
pink: unknow host www.google.com
My resolv.conf file is using an OpenDNS server:
nameserver 208.67.222.222
nameserver 208.67.220.220
... and the DNS from all other computer inside my network is working perfectly.
Before this update, the DNS was fine.
What can I do?
Help!
#define DRV_MODULE_NAME "bnx2"
#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION "2.0.15"
#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE "May 4, 2010"
#define FW_MIPS_FILE_06 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j6.fw"
#define FW_RV2P_FILE_06 "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-5.0.0.j3.fw"
#define FW_MIPS_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw"
#define FW_RV2P_FILE_09_Ax "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-5.0.0.j10.fw"
#define FW_RV2P_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw"
... but the bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j9.fw was deleted in git.
Do I need to recompile something else?
Thanks!