bnx2 netboot FW problem

Hi, I'm trying to clone many servers at once using DRBL live + Clonezilla, I'm using the las version of DRBL from the site and I came across with the folowing problem: I have HP DL385G7 servers, those comes with 4 Broadcom Netextreme II ...

Message posted on the January 10th, 2013 - 2:30 PM ET

[PATCH net-next 00/21] treewide: Use consistent api style for address testing

ethernet, ipv4, and ipv6 address testing uses 3 different api naming styles. ethernet uses: is_<foo>_ether_addr ipv4 uses: ipv4_is_<foo> ipv6 uses: ipv6_addr_<foo> Standardize on the ipv6 style of <prefix>_addr_<type> ...

Message posted on the October 19th, 2012 - 12:00 AM ET

Linux 3.6-rc7

Ho humm. I really *really* want to say that this is the last -rc, but we do have a few small things pending still. So who knows. There may be a -rc8, we'll just have to see. That said, nothing here looks really bad. You can get a fairly good feel ...

Message posted on the September 23rd, 2012 - 10:00 PM ET

Linux 3.6-rc7

Ho humm. I really *really* want to say that this is the last -rc, but we do have a few small things pending still. So who knows. There may be a -rc8, we'll just have to see. That said, nothing here looks really bad. You can get a fairly good feel ...

Message posted on the September 23rd, 2012 - 10:00 PM ET

Linux 3.6-rc7

Ho humm. I really *really* want to say that this is the last -rc, but we do have a few small things pending still. So who knows. There may be a -rc8, we'll just have to see. That said, nothing here looks really bad. You can get a fairly good feel ...

Message posted on the September 23rd, 2012 - 10:00 PM ET

[ 000/109] 3.4.8-stable review

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 3.4.8 release. There are 109 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being ...

Message posted on the August 7th, 2012 - 6:40 PM ET

Linux 3.5 released

Ok, not a lot happened since -rc7. There's a number of MIPS commits (for some reason MIPS has had a horrible track record with the -rc time schedule, I suspect I should just stop pulling late in the game), but most of the rest is pretty small. A ...

Message posted on the July 21st, 2012 - 6:20 PM ET

BNX2 MIPS06 firmware in tree is 6.2.1, driver wants 6.2.3

Hash: SHA1 Good morning, As of mainline commit c2c20ef43d00b1439631e603f8dcee9a803cd8b3 in December 2011, the BNX2 driver requests bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw; however the firmware/bnx2 directory in the kernel sources only contains ...

Message posted on the July 3rd, 2012 - 5:00 AM ET

bnx2 driver loading error : Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw

Hi Logged a bug on 3rd april on 3.4-rc1 kernel. Bug ID : 43036 Short descreption : bnx2 driver loading error : Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw Bugzila url : https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?idC036 The status of the ...

Message posted on the April 19th, 2012 - 11:10 PM ET

In tree firmware not kept up to date

Hello, What is the current policy wrt keeping the in-tree firmware updated alongside the drivers? I use CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL but a couple of times[0] recently this has failed me because the in-tree bnx2 driver requires ...

Message posted on the April 17th, 2012 - 11:20 AM ET

K7/Athlon Optimization Causes Build Fail on Kernel 3.3 i686

Hi, The other day when I was compiling 3.3 on my home server, enabling the K7/Athlon family optimizations seems to cause the build to fail. It fails without any erroneous output at the very end of the build and has ...

Message posted on the March 27th, 2012 - 10:00 AM ET

the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw

I am using an IBM x3650 7979 that i believe has a netextreme network card. On install of Debian Squeeze - I get the following messege: the missing firmware files are: bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw does anyone know how i can get around this ? Make ...

Message posted on the March 9th, 2012 - 9:30 AM ET

bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1.b still missing

commit c2c20ef43d00b1439631e603f8dcee9a803cd8b3 mentioned bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1.b, but it's still missing from the latest git. Where can I download the bnx2 firmware from? Thanks, Jeff commit c2c20ef43d00b1439631e603f8dcee9a803cd8b3 Author: Michael ...

Message posted on the January 12th, 2012 - 10:40 AM ET

Problem with 2.6.38 backport and bnx2 card

Hi, As already send to debian-backports list, there is an issue with current 2.6.38 backport kernel and bnx2 firmware. During install, I get the following message : update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-bpo.2-amd64 W: Possible ...

Message posted on the July 24th, 2011 - 11:20 AM ET

bnx2 mips