Peter Kjellstr??m writes:
> 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).
Looks like a vanilla kernel bug.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/17/268
> 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).
Spot on - the working machine did not have kmod-bnx2 installed.
> 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.
Installing without kmod-bnx2 worked, and I also had to get rid of kmod-cnic,
which /tmp/yum.log listed as requiring kmod-bnx2.
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