Comments on: bnx2 missing from stock Debian 2.6.24 etchnhalf kernel

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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:01:17 +0000

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By: Vide

Vide — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:21:58 +0000

@Marius: Last time I tried (abouth 5-6 weeks ago), the firmware-bnx2 package in Lenny wasn’t still updated to 2.6.26 (it was still for 2.6.25), so in Lenny bnx2 was just broken… probably it happened the same in backports land, but I didn’t try.

By: - Marius -

- Marius - — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:30:53 +0000

Vide: thanks for your note. It would be interesting to see if that happens with the backports kernel also (as I assume that firmware was tested with that kernel). That would mean that the issue you sow can appear in lenny also.

If you could try this out with linux-image-2.6.26-bpo.1-* and the firmware-bnx2 from backports and update us if this still fails it would be great. If you don’t have the possibility to test this easily, I will try to do this sometime next week and update this post with the result.

Thanks,
- Marius -

By: Vide

Vide — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:49:21 +0000

I was going to do a similiar post but you were quickier. Just a quick note (it happened to me in one test server): if you happen to have backports.org repo ENabled and the etch non-free repo DISabled, then when you issue

aptitude install firmware-bnx2

it will install it from backports, for a newer kernel, and it won’t work (and if your main ethernet is a bnx2, you’re in trouble