Hi, Since sys-kernel/gentoo-source-3.3.0, bnx2 firmware can't load then the driver bnx2 doesn't work. Tested on PowerEdge 1950. equery list udev * Searching for udev ... [IP-] [ ] sys-fs/udev-171-r5:0 ll /lib/firmware/bnx2 total 1216 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2012-04-05 12:40 . drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 17 2009-06-21 16:14 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92628 2009-12-07 09:52 bnx2-mips-06-4.6.16.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 93172 2010-05-03 21:49 bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94252 2010-12-28 11:52 bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j6.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92780 2011-03-13 10:01 bnx2-mips-06-6.0.15.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92792 2012-04-05 12:40 bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92760 2009-12-07 09:52 bnx2-mips-09-4.6.17.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96996 2010-12-28 11:52 bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96504 2010-05-03 21:49 bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j3.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 96616 2010-07-14 14:54 bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j9.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103488 2011-03-13 10:01 bnx2-mips-09-6.0.17.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 104104 2011-06-09 21:56 bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103868 2012-04-05 12:40 bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6872 2009-12-07 09:52 bnx2-rv2p-06-4.6.16.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6600 2010-12-28 11:52 bnx2-rv2p-06-5.0.0.j3.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5696 2012-04-05 12:40 bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7672 2009-12-07 09:52 bnx2-rv2p-09-4.6.15.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7224 2010-12-28 11:52 bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j10.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7216 2010-05-03 21:49 bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j3.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6104 2012-04-05 12:40 bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7808 2010-12-28 11:52 bnx2-rv2p-09ax-5.0.0.j10.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7800 2010-05-03 21:49 bnx2-rv2p-09ax-5.0.0.j3.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6616 2012-04-05 12:40 bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.55 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.5.3, glibc-2.13-r4, 3.2.11-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.11-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5410_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 05 Apr 2012 09:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.2_p20 dev-lang/python: 2.7.2-r3, 3.2.2 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.8.4 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.21.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.5-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r1 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.3 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.13-r4 Repositories: gentoo entropie funtoo fallabs ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=core2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" FFLAGS="" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mir0.gentoo-fr.org/ http://mir1.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://gentoo.imj.fr/pub/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/entropie /var/lib/layman/funtoo /var/lib/layman/fallabs" SYNC="rsync://mir0.gentoo-fr.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aio amd64 bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cli cracklib crypt cxx gdbm iconv ipv6 mmx modules mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly openmp pam pcre pppd readline session sse sse2 ssl sysfs tcpd threads unicode vim-syntax zlib" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" NGINX_MODULES_HTTP="access auth_basic autoindex fastcgi browser charset gzip headers_more proxy referer rewrite upstream_ip_hash" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="fbdev vga" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
Any error message in dmesg? Something like: bnx2: Can't load firmware file Can you attach the entire dmesg?
Can you try with linux-firmware-20120219 ?
(In reply to comment #1) > Any error message in dmesg? Something like: bnx2: Can't load firmware file > > Can you attach the entire dmesg? I have this in kern.log with kernel 3.3.1 about bnx2 : Apr 5 14:14:34 babykart kernel: bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.2.1 (Dec 18, 2011) Apr 5 14:14:34 babykart kernel: bnx2 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f8000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:12:19:4f:e2:5e Apr 5 14:14:34 babykart kernel: bnx2 0000:07:00.0: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f4000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:12:19:4f:e2:60 Apr 5 14:14:34 babykart kernel: bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw" Apr 5 14:14:34 babykart kernel: bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw" Apr 5 14:14:34 babykart kernel: bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw" Apr 5 14:14:40 babykart kernel: bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw"
(In reply to comment #2) > Can you try with linux-firmware-20120219 ? It works find with linux-firmware-20120219 : thank you. Well, since 3.3, linux-firmware are not embedded in gentoo-sources?
linux-firmware is a separate package. I believe the kernel code now looks for a different fw file name, that file name exists in the new linux-fireware package.
Hello, Same for me today with sys-kernel/gentoo-source-3.4.9 : bnx2: Can’t load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw" when booting on new kernel. When looking at kernel make output, we can see : MK_FW firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw.gen.S IHEX firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw AS firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw.gen.o MK_FW firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw.gen.S IHEX firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw AS firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw.gen.o MK_FW firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw.gen.S IHEX firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw AS firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw.gen.o MK_FW firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw.gen.S IHEX firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw AS firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw.gen.o MK_FW firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw.gen.S IHEX firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw AS firmware/bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw.gen.o Nothing for bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw, only for bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw. cd /usr/src/linux-3.4.9-gentoo/firmware/bnx2 bnx2 # ls -l total 1048 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 92792 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 94072 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw.gen.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 503 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw.gen.S -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 255624 21 mai 00:29 bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw.ihex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103868 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 105160 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw.gen.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw.gen.S -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 286104 21 mai 00:29 bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw.ihex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5696 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6984 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw.gen.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw.gen.S -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16004 21 mai 00:29 bnx2-rv2p-06-6.0.15.fw.ihex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6104 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7392 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw.gen.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 510 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw.gen.S -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17132 21 mai 00:29 bnx2-rv2p-09-6.0.17.fw.ihex -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6616 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7904 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw.gen.o -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 524 1 sept. 18:37 bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw.gen.S -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18552 21 mai 00:29 bnx2-rv2p-09ax-6.0.17.fw.ihex No firmware for bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw And yet, if you edit /usr/src/linux-3.4.9-gentoo/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c, you can read : #define FW_MIPS_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw" instead of #define FW_MIPS_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw" I applied the patch recommendation of Kerin Millar by modifying this line and it works for me. But it's very dangerous to keep this king of bug in multiple stable version of gentoo-source. We can easily loose control of remote server. Please, can you fix that in next gentoo-source releases ?