On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, renuka apte wrote: > I am using a QLA2460 card. I was experiencing a problem with port > entries not appearing under /sys/class/fc_hosts/. Through the dmesgs > I realised it was happening as the firmware image could not be > found, and I could get around the problem by disabling the > ql2xfwloadbin module parameter. I would like to know whether having > the firmware image is mandatory, or whether I should continue using > this workaround. Take a look at the driver's Kconfig file: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/Kconfig;h=8c865b9e02b579f2d5bfc64a706fec3ea4063433;hb=HEAD for details on where to retrieve and place the firmware images on your local systems. Regards, Andrew Vasquez - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html