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Two of my servers are having bizarre problems after upgrading to
Debian Bullseye. After attempting numerous fixes, I decided to wipe the
systems and do a fresh install. I did a fresh install of he first from
a netinst thumb drive, but the .iso does not contain the bnx2c drivers
needed for the ASUS PEB-10G/57811-1S 10GbE SFP+ Network Adapters used by
both systems. I tried adding what I thought to be the correct non-free
drivers, but I still got errors about the bnx2x drivers and the
interface shows no carrier. Since no carrier is detected on the
interface, no LAN or internet access is possible. The system is
effectively dead, although it boots up and of course I have local
console access.
After several different approaches, I changed from the netinst
image to a full non-free image. It still would not properly load the
bnx2x drivers. I tried downloading all six bnx2x e1, e1h, and e2
release 7.13.15.0 and 7.13.21.0 firmware files and adding them to the
initram image. It no longer complains about missing files, but it
doesn't activate the NIC, either. These servers are both essentially
dead in the water until I can get this fixed.
The only thing I spot from dmesg that seems possibly related is:
[ 1.420748] r8169 0000:0b:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have
ASPM control
[ 1.433467] r8169 0000:0b:00.0 eth0: RTL8168f/8111f,
50:46:5d:65:15:9c, XID 480, IRQ 39
[ 1.433469] r8169 0000:0b:00.0 eth0: jumbo features [frames: 9194
bytes, tx checksumming: ko]
...
[ 1.458361] r8169 0000:0b:00.0 enp11s0: renamed from eth0
[ 1.465675] bnx2x: disagrees about version of symbol module_layout
...
[ 12.976323] r8169 0000:0b:00.0: firmware: failed to load
rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw (-2)
[ 12.976478] firmware_class: See https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware for
information about missing firmware
[ 12.976632] r8169 0000:0b:00.0: Direct firmware load for
rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw failed with error -2
[ 12.976636] r8169 0000:0b:00.0: Unable to load firmware
rtl_nic/rtl8168f-1.fw (-2)
[ 12.977326] RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet r8169-0-b00:00: attached PHY
driver [RTL8211E Gigabit Ethernet] (mii_bus:phy_addr=r8169-0-b00:00,
irq=IGNORE)
[ 13.046445] r8169 0000:0b:00.0 enp11s0: Link is Down
I would not expect the RTL8168 or RTL8169 firmware to be necessary,
but is it? Either way, why isn't it on the image? I would ask the same
thing about the bnx2x drivers, but they seem to have a bit of a history
of being fragmented. All that aside, how can I get this fixed in a hurry?
This is an AMD system with an 8 core FX-8350 CPU. The install
image is Debian GNU/Linux 11.3.0 "Bullseye" - Unofficial amd64 DVD
Binary-1 with firmware 20220326-11:23. I pulled the extra firmware from
git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/bnx2x/
