Hi,
After following the instructions here http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart and installing the kernel from Xen4 CentOS project (kernel-3.4.61-9.el6.centos.alt.x86_64) I can't use any networking because the firmware for my NIC is not available:
Bringing up interface eth0.3: bnx2x 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:11696(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw bnx2x: [bnx2x_func_hw_init:5476(eth0)]Error loading firmware bnx2x: [bnx2x_nic_load:2118(eth0)]HW init failed, aborting
This seems similar to http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6513 . Is this a bug? Is this a known issue?
Thanks, Dusty
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:34:57AM -0400, Dusty Mabe wrote:
Hi,
After following the instructions here http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Xen/Xen4QuickStart and installing the kernel from Xen4 CentOS project (kernel-3.4.61-9.el6.centos.alt.x86_64) I can't use any networking because the firmware for my NIC is not available:
Bringing up interface eth0.3: bnx2x 0000:02:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:11696(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw bnx2x: [bnx2x_func_hw_init:5476(eth0)]Error loading firmware bnx2x: [bnx2x_nic_load:2118(eth0)]HW init failed, aborting
This seems similar to http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6513 . Is this a bug? Is this a known issue?
Yeah, it looks like the kernel is missing the firmware for your NIC. Please open a bug on bugs.centos.org
Thanks,
-- Pasi
On Nov 9, 2013, at 8:19, "Pasi Kärkkäinen" pasik@iki.fi wrote:
Yeah, it looks like the kernel is missing the firmware for your NIC.
Please open a bug on bugs.centos.org
Thanks. I wrote a bug last week and it has already been looked at: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6721
On 11/09/2013 07:09 AM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On Nov 9, 2013, at 8:19, "Pasi Kärkkäinen" <pasik@iki.fi mailto:pasik@iki.fi> wrote:
Yeah, it looks like the kernel is missing the firmware for your NIC.
Please open a bug on bugs.centos.org http://bugs.centos.org
Thanks. I wrote a bug last week and it has already been looked at: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=6721
I assume the fix worked for you?
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I assume the fix worked for you?
Hi, I just got around to trying this. The fix does not seem to have worked because the particular firmware I need (bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw) is still not provided.
[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -qlp kernel-firmware-3.4.61-9.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm | grep bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.2.16.0.fw [root@localhost tmp]# [root@localhost tmp]# [root@localhost tmp]# rpm -qlp kernel-firmware-3.4.68-9.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm | grep bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.2.16.0.fw
Dusty
On 11/11/2013 01:40 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I assume the fix worked for you?
Hi, I just got around to trying this. The fix does not seem to have worked because the particular firmware I need (bnx2x-e1h-7.2.51.0.fw) is still not provided.
[root@localhost tmp]# rpm -qlp kernel-firmware-3.4.61-9.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm | grep bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.2.16.0.fw [root@localhost tmp]# [root@localhost tmp]# [root@localhost tmp]# rpm -qlp kernel-firmware-3.4.68-9.el6.centos.alt.noarch.rpm | grep bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-6.2.9.0.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.2.16.0.fw
I found an issue with the new firmware patch ... it is fixed in testing now and I will push it on the next kernel update ...
If you want to test, the kernel here should work and has the new driver:
http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/
Note: that is a 3.10.18 kernel and is currently in testing, but should work on the xen4centos6 repo
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I found an issue with the new firmware patch ... it is fixed in testing now and I will push it on the next kernel update ...
If you want to test, the kernel here should work and has the new driver:
http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/
Note: that is a 3.10.18 kernel and is currently in testing, but should work on the xen4centos6 repo
Looks like the new kernel is looking for a newer firmware:
bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:12263(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.8.17.0.fw
Dusty
On 11/14/2013 09:53 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I found an issue with the new firmware patch ... it is fixed in testing now and I will push it on the next kernel update ...
If you want to test, the kernel here should work and has the new driver:
http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/
Note: that is a 3.10.18 kernel and is currently in testing, but should work on the xen4centos6 repo
Looks like the new kernel is looking for a newer firmware:
bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:12263(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.8.17.0.fw
It seems broadcom NICs and the kernel interact strangely indeed ...
I am going to go about this in a different way .. instead of doing it piecemeal (which means I need individual people to tell me theirs is not working), I am just going to put every FW Driver for bn2x and bnx2x into the new kernel ... I am trying that now in a version that is 3.10.20-10. I am not sure why this is not being done now upstream, but lets see what happens.
I will send another email to the list if this builds .. when it is available.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On 11/23/2013 09:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 11/14/2013 09:53 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I found an issue with the new firmware patch ... it is fixed in testing now and I will push it on the next kernel update ...
If you want to test, the kernel here should work and has the new driver:
http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/
Note: that is a 3.10.18 kernel and is currently in testing, but should work on the xen4centos6 repo
Looks like the new kernel is looking for a newer firmware:
bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:12263(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.8.17.0.fw
It seems broadcom NICs and the kernel interact strangely indeed ...
I am going to go about this in a different way .. instead of doing it piecemeal (which means I need individual people to tell me theirs is not working), I am just going to put every FW Driver for bn2x and bnx2x into the new kernel ... I am trying that now in a version that is 3.10.20-10. I am not sure why this is not being done now upstream, but lets see what happens.
I will send another email to the list if this builds .. when it is available.
OK, there is a newer kernel (3.10.20-11) that has all bn2x and bnx2x firmware that is in the kernel.org firmware git tree enabled. This should work for you. Please give it a try and let me know.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
OK, there is a newer kernel (3.10.20-11) that has all bn2x and bnx2x firmware that is in the kernel.org firmware git tree enabled. This should work for you. Please give it a try and let me know.
All necessary firmware seems to be included in the kernel-firmware rpm for kernel-3.10.20-11.el6.centos.alt.x86_64.
Thanks
On 24/11/13 14:02, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 11/23/2013 09:41 AM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 11/14/2013 09:53 PM, Dusty Mabe wrote:
On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 11:59 AM, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
I found an issue with the new firmware patch ... it is fixed in testing now and I will push it on the next kernel update ...
If you want to test, the kernel here should work and has the new driver:
http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/xen-c6-RC1/
Note: that is a 3.10.18 kernel and is currently in testing, but should work on the xen4centos6 repo
Looks like the new kernel is looking for a newer firmware:
bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:12263(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.8.17.0.fw
It seems broadcom NICs and the kernel interact strangely indeed ...
I am going to go about this in a different way .. instead of doing it piecemeal (which means I need individual people to tell me theirs is not working), I am just going to put every FW Driver for bn2x and bnx2x into the new kernel ... I am trying that now in a version that is 3.10.20-10. I am not sure why this is not being done now upstream, but lets see what happens.
I will send another email to the list if this builds .. when it is available.
OK, there is a newer kernel (3.10.20-11) that has all bn2x and bnx2x firmware that is in the kernel.org firmware git tree enabled. This should work for you. Please give it a try and let me know.
You may wish to consider having a separate firmware package and not including any firmware from the kernel.
FWIW, this is what we do in XenServer.
David
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