--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: W: Possible missing firmware ???.fw.bin?? for module ??????.ko
> To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 3:30 PM
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > Dear fellow testers,
> >
> > Has anyone noticed something like the Subject line?
> >
> > Installing :
> kernel-2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64
>
> 10/87
> > W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module
> aic94xx.ko
> > W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module
> qla2xxx.ko
> > W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module
> qla2xxx.ko
> > W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module
> qla2xxx.ko
> > W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module
> qla2xxx.ko
> > W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module
> qla2xxx.ko
> > W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module
> qla2xxx.ko
> >
> >
> > Does it mean that if we have the above firmware on our
> machines, that the kernel modules are not there because of
> error?
>
> The firmware files are expected to be installed in
> /lib/firmware by the
> modules. Note that that's "/lib/firmware" regardless
> of 32- or 64-bit
> systems.
>
> The QLogic firmware files (the qla2xxx driver is for QLogic
> fiberchannel
> HBAs) are installed by making sure you install the
> appropriate RPMs:
>
> [root@prophead ~]# rpm -qf
> /lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
> ql23xx-firmware-3.03.27-1.fc10.noarch
>
[olivares@n6355-19134 ~]$ uname -r
2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64
[olivares@n6355-19134 ~]$ rpm -qf /lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
error: file /lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin: No such file or directory
> So "yum install ql*-firmware*" should get you all of
> them. You're
> running a lot of fiberchannel stuff?
I actually don't know how all of this works. I just installed rawhide x86_64 on a spare machine at work^{1} and this is what I see. Do I really need to install all of that firmware?
> Wow! I do,
> but only on big,
> honking (hundreds of TB) storage farms using EMC arrays.
>
> As for the Adaptec file (aic94xx), I don't know. I'm
> sure there's an RPM for that as well. I haven't run an
> Adaptec card that needed
> firmware in a long time.
As always, thanks for your input! :) You give excellent advice and I always look forward to reading your posts.
Regards,
Antonio
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