Hi! I am not sure if it's a bug or if I have just missed an information regarding the update process.
A few months ago, I installed Etch on some of our Intel Blades (amd64 port); the machines worked normally. After updating (also installing some blades from scratch) to 2.6.24-etchnhalf, the onboard network devices did not function, but I discovered soon that (binary) firmware from the kernel sources has been put out into own packages. After installing package firmware-bnx2, the devices are working again. But: Having some network load on these devices, the kernel panics. NFS-mounts or a connection using SSH work at first, but waiting a while (random length), the machine crashes. This can be forced by initiating a data transfer over NFS => kernel panic after a few seconds. I tried kernel 2.6.26 and firmware-bnx2 from the backports, also, to no better result. Last week, I built kernel 2.6.24 myself from the sources of kernel.org, using the config of 2.6.24-etchnhalf (giving default answers to a few additional questions); with this the tests look good, no kernel panic so far. Well - do you have any hint for me, what I could have missed when installing the firmware-bnx2 package(s)? With kind regards, Wolfgang Braun -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kernel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org