On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 12:13 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > > On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Ben Greear wrote: > >> I have selected build-firmware-into-kernel > >> but it seems e100 is still unhappy in 2.6.29-rc7. > >> > >> e100 0000:02:01.0: firmware: requesting e100/d102e_ucode.bin > >> e100: eth4: e100_request_firmware: Failed to load firmware > >> "e100/d102e_ucode.bin": -2 > > > > can you post anything extra about your config? arch? full dmesg? full > > .config? > > > > There have been several other reports of this but setting > > CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y seems to fix them in general. > > > > also please post lspci -vvv -s 2:1.0, after failing to load. I'm curious > > if the device might be in D3 still. > > > > you can likely just get working by commenting out the firmware load for > > e100. It may or may not re-enable a hardware bug depending upon the > > hardware you have. > > We got it working by copying firmware from another system (FC8) that had > it in /lib/firmware. > > Just retested with -rc8 from Friday, and it is repeatable. > > The config & dmesg is attached. Some of the options are for patches we've > added, and we even have a small patch in the e100 (but have had it there > for years, so probably un-related to this). Still, I will not complain > if you decide to ignore the report. [...]
Your config has CONFIG_E100=m, but CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL only applies to firmware used by non-modular drivers. The assumption is that once userland is capable of loading modules it is also capable of loading firmware. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
