Hi all, Am 2. Juni 2025 01:11:26 MESZ schrieb Nicholas D Steeves <[email protected]>: >reopen 1012859 >thanks > >Leslie, please retain me in CC for your replies. > >Holger Wansing <[email protected]> writes: > >> Leslie Rhorer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> OK, I went ahead and did a fresh install of Bookworm and the 10G NIC works. >> > >Yes, that's the "crippled system". The above quote is truncated, and >there is a second server that Leslie Rhorer previously described as >"dead". In the last email to this bug, the reporter's second sentence, >about the second system was: > >>> I went ahead and upgraded the [second] Bullseye system to bookworm, >>> and everything seems to work as well as ever, but I still don't have >>> the 10G NIC working on that system. The driver for the card is >>> bnx2x, but the card currently does not even show up on the system. > >So there are two affected systems. For the record, the specific NIC >that uses bnx2x but that isn't working is this one: > >>>>> Asus PEB-10G/57811-1S 10GbE SFP+ Network Adapter which employs a >>>>> BCM 57811S controller > >Leslie, does your server with this NIC work with up-to-date firmware >from bookworm? How about bookworm-backports? And in combination with >the kernel from bookworm-backports? > >Alternatively, would you please test with a TESTING image for the >upcoming Debian 13 (trixie) release? > > https://www.debian.org/CD/live/
Leslie already confirmed, that in a fresh Bookworm install all is fine. Testing with a Trixie ISO might be good, yes. So the only issue is on a Buster system, which was upgraded to Bullseye, and is then broken. That's an issue with oldoldstable and oldstable, which I think is unlikely to be fixed. Did I miss something in my summary? > >> So I close this bug. >> >> Apparently there was an issue with the firmware in Bullseye, but since the >> issue is already fixed in Bookworm, there is nothing more to do here. >> > >Holger, do you have another source of information that shows that this >was fixed for the reporter's second server? In the absence of this, >this bug should not be closed. No, no further information apart from this bug. Sorry, if I closed that too early. Holger

