| Summary: | bnx2 driver can't load on lower kernel version after update firmware | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Hangbin Liu <haliu> |
| Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Neil Horman <nhorman> |
| Status: | CLOSED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe> |
| Severity: | urgent | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | CC: | nhorman |
| Target Milestone: | rc | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2011-03-03 14:24:46 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 678429 *** |
Description of problem: After update kernel-firmware-2.6.32-119.el6.noarch.rpm , bnx2 NIC can't load driver on lower version kernel like 2.6.32-71.el6 . # lspci | grep Eth 01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) 01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20) # dmesg | grep bnx2 bnx2 0000:01:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j15.fw" bnx2 0000:01:00.0: PCI INT A disabled bnx2: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.32-119.el6 and 118.el6 How reproducible: often Steps to Reproduce: 1.# rpm -Uvh noarch/kernel-firmware-2.6.32-119.el6.noarch.rpm 2.# rpm -ivh x86_64/kernel-2.6.32-119.el6.x86_64.rpm 3.change grub default vlaue to kernel 71.el6 and reboot system Actual results: # ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) # modprobe bnx2 # ifup eth0 Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization. Expected results: bnx2 driver should be loaded and eth0 up Additional info: test on two machines and all have this issue .