From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Dongsoo Nathaniel Kim <dongsoo.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel has problem with broadcom firmware
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:14:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1326161689.3432.26.camel@deadeye> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP+Vy9f0wMXebtfMWBXdC24cQR1d-2i6YZxfjK8JyOpVGgKvrQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 10:12 +0900, Dongsoo Nathaniel Kim wrote:
> Hello folks,
> After updating my kernel to 3.2 vanilla, I experienced a weird problem
> with my broadcom ethernet card.
> It seems to have some problem with firmware which is not placed in
> kernel firmware directory.
> When will it the correct firmware be available in the mainline?
> bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw <= I mean this one.
> I hacked bnx2 driver to use bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw and ethernet is
> working, but we really need bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw, don't we?
> Cheers,
You can get the new firmware file from linux-firmware.git. It's a bit
stupid that we have the old file in the Linux tree though.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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