Bare Metal Installation Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II (bnx2) Problem

tdk · Post by **tdk** » Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:28 am

If you use Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II controller after 4.4.14-eve-ng-ukms+ x86_64 kernel Broadcom interfaces will not be up. There is no problem if you use generic ubuntu kernel. Maybe eve kernel need a patch.

Problem:
bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw"
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.4.14-eve-ng-ukms+
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw for module bnx2
W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw for module bnx2

To solve problem:
cp /lib/firmware/4.4.0-62-generic/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw
cp /lib/firmware/4.4.0-62-generic/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw /lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw

and reboot the server.

It worked for me.