On Tuesday 24 April 2012 16.05.26 Ned Slider wrote: > On 24/04/12 15:56, Lars Hecking wrote: > > Peter Kjellstr??m writes: > >> On Monday 23 April 2012 17.54.33 Lars Hecking wrote: ... > >>> 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).>> ... > >> 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. > > This is fixed in RHEL6.3 (beta) where the kernel-firmware package > contains the latest firmware that you are missing above:
To be clear, there is no bug/problem in the kernel-firmware package in 6.2. This thread is about the behaviour of a driver update (kmod-bnx2) with its own (incomplete) set of firmware. As you point out, 6.3 will have the new driver and its firmware. ... > In the meantime (as a workaround), just grab the missing firmware and > place it in the appropriate directory. No, in the meantime don't install kmod-bnx2 unless you need it, it's not meant as a general update for the kernel provided bnx2. /Peter
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