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Bug 681723 - bnx2 driver can't load on lower kernel version after update firmware
Summary: bnx2 driver can't load on lower kernel version after update firmware
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 678429
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
unspecified
urgent
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Neil Horman
QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-03 02:58 UTC by Hangbin Liu
Modified: 2011-03-03 14:24 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2011-03-03 14:24:46 UTC
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Description Hangbin Liu 2011-03-03 02:58:52 UTC 
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 .
Comment 2 Neil Horman 2011-03-03 14:24:46 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 678429 ***
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