On Monday 23 April 2012 17.54.33 Lars Hecking wrote: > I just kickstarted a new machine with the latest CentOS 6.2 files, > including kernel 2.6.32-220.13.1.el6.x86_64. It came up without network > interfaces. > > dmesg says: > bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw" This is because you have the kmod-bnx2 package which contains a newer driver (2.2.1) but not a complete set of firmwares (two out of five files missing). ... > What I don't understand is: I have an identical machine that I installed > under 6.2 a while back, and kept up to date, and it doesn't have this > problem. However, it tells me it uses version v2.1.11 (July 20, 2011) of > the driver, how is that possible? This machine is using the normal bnx2 driver (2.1.11) for which there is a complete set of firmwares (provided by the kernel-firmware package). If you don't need the 2.2.1 driver I suggest you remove the kmod-bnx2 package from the first machine and fall back to the driver in the normal kernel package. /Peter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120424/8bf6c68a/attachment-0004.sig>