Hi everybody, I've got a new Dell Poweredge server that needs two pieces of firmware for it to work successfully. The first is the firmware for the Qlogic Fiber Channel card. The second is firmware for a Broadcom ethernet port.
This box is running Debian Lenny. When I did the install of the operating system, the Debian installer informed me that it needed firmware for these two drivers and it prompted me to place the firmware on to a USB stick. I did so, and the installation proceeded without any problems. Then, I built a custom 2.6.27.19 kernel using the stock kernel source from kernel.org. I didn't use the kernel-package, but rather a standard, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, mkinitramfs . . . as I've done for years. However, when I attempted to reboot into the custom 2.6.27.19 kernel, Debian informed me that it couldn't locate the qlogic firmware. However, I have installed the following debian packages: firmware-bnx2 firmware-qlogic and I see the firmware in /lib/firmware. The message I receive upon boot is: Firmware image not available. firmware images can be retrieve from ftp://ftp.qlogic.com/outgoing/linux/firmware Attempting to load (potentially outdated) firmware from flash I'm guessing that when I created my initrd image (using mkinitramfs) that something didn't go right. Or am I missing some step? Can anybody help me out? Thanks, Bryan Walton -- Bryan K. Walton Division of Physiologic Imaging Systems Administrator University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
