On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 8:43 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > On 07/05/2015 11:35 AM, T.Weyergraf wrote: >> Hi folks >> >> As mentioned in the subject, kernel-3.18.12-11 is missing firmware files >> required to run Broadcom/Qlogic network cards, driven by bnx2x driver. >> While in the source-rpm, there is a bnx2/bnx2x firmware tgz being >> applied during the rpm build, along with a patch adding these firmware >> files to firmware/Makefile, neither the tgz nor the patch contain the >> required firmware files. In 3.18, the driver bumped to version >> 1.710.51-0, requiring the following firmware files/versions to work: >> >> firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.10.51.0.fw >> firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1h-7.10.51.0.fw >> firmware: bnx2x/bnx2x-e1-7.10.51.0.fw >> >> I helped myself by either copying the required firmware-files to the >> target-machines' /lib/firmware/bnx2x dir and ultimately by adding the >> files to the source-rpm along with a new Makefile patch and rebuilding >> the kernel rpms. >> >> However, as bnx2x NICs seem quite commonplace these days, I suggest to >> fix this 'upstream'. If required, I can provide the (trivial) patch. I >> pulled the firmware-files from a CentOS 7 stock kernel. >> >> Regards >> Thomas > > Thomas, > > Please see if this kernel solves your issues: > > http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/xen-kernel/x86_64/Packages/ > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes There was a response, "Nope, those did not work". See: https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=9030#c23582 Akemi