Peter Kjellstr??m writes: > On Monday 23 April 2012 17.54.33 Lars Hecking wrote: > > I just kickstarted a new machine with the latest CentOS 6.2 files, > > including kernel 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64. It came up without network > > interfaces. > > > > dmesg says: > > bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw" > > This is because you have the kmod-bnx2 package which contains a newer driver > (2.2.1) but not a complete set of firmwares (two out of five files missing). Looks like a vanilla kernel bug.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/17/268 > This machine is using the normal bnx2 driver (2.1.11) for which there is a > complete set of firmwares (provided by the kernel-firmware package). Spot on - the working machine did not have kmod-bnx2 installed. > If you don't need the 2.2.1 driver I suggest you remove the kmod-bnx2 package > from the first machine and fall back to the driver in the normal kernel > package. Installing without kmod-bnx2 worked, and I also had to get rid of kmod-cnic, which /tmp/yum.log listed as requiring kmod-bnx2. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
