netdev - Re: Mainline kernel has problem with broadcom firmware

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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:14:49 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Dongsoo Nathaniel Kim <dongsoo.kim@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: Mainline kernel has problem with broadcom firmware

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.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
                                                               - John Lennon

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