Le 30/05/2022 à 01:45, Leslie Rhorer a écrit : > If this is the wrong list, please let me know the correct one so I > can subscribe and post there. > > 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: > > ... > [ 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) Do you have that file rtl8168f-1.fw in your setup ? Is it at the correct place ? By the way, this seems to be more a Debian problem than a kernel problem. Have you asked your question to Debian support ? Christophe