Hi Costel,
This is great! Thanks for sharing your solution.
Regards,
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- DongInn
On Mar 12, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Costel Seitan <csei...@slb.com> wrote:
> Hi DongInn,
>
> This is to let you know that I fixed my issue with Broadcom Netxtreme II
> card and I successfully installed my node.
>
> If this could be of any help to others..
>
> Problem as I see it (after dozens of tests):
>
> The bnx2 driver v. 2.2.1 used onto the master node (came with CentOS 6.3)
> requests .fw files in /lib/firmware.
> The.fw files was missing from the initrd.img and the SIS oscarimage.
> The /lib/firmware files were not included into the SIS oscarimage and
> therefore not into the initrd.img.
> After adding them to the initrd.img it was impossible to make the kernel load
> the .fw files during the PXE boot.
>
> Solution:
> I downloaded the last driver archive Netxtreme2-linux-7.4.27.tar.gz from
> Broadcom and compiled the drivers.
> I loaded my new module to check it works onto the master node (same hardware).
> I copied the bnx2.ko file to the initrd.img UYOK (uncompressed archive) and
> recreated the image.
> NOTE: The new bnx2.ko does not depend on any .fw files.
> I booted PXE and it worked.
>
> Thank you for your support.
> Best Regards,
> Costel SEITAN
>
>
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