Re: Latest 6.2 kernel is broken

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On Monday 23 April 2012 17.54.33 Lars Hecking wrote:
>  I just kickstarted a new machine with the latest CentOS 6.2 files,
> including kernel 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64. It came up without network
> interfaces.
> 
>  dmesg says:
> bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw"

This is because you have the kmod-bnx2 package which contains a newer driver 
(2.2.1) but not a complete set of firmwares (two out of five files missing).

...
>  What I don't understand is: I have an identical machine that I installed
>  under 6.2 a while back, and kept up to date, and it doesn't have this
>  problem. However, it tells me it uses version v2.1.11 (July 20, 2011) of
>  the driver, how is that possible?

This machine is using the normal bnx2 driver (2.1.11) for which there is a 
complete set of firmwares (provided by the kernel-firmware package).

If you don't need the 2.2.1 driver I suggest you remove the kmod-bnx2 package 
from the first machine and fall back to the driver in the normal kernel 
package.

/Peter

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