zeroshhell 2.0.RC3 Broadcom Netxtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Eth

[frnty]

Hi all,

i had some problems with the firmware of the ethernet card and i solved it. Below is what i did:

1. find the appropriate firmware file (in my case was the bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw) file.

I installed zeroshell and booted with another rescue cd in order to copy the file in the /DB partition of the zeroshell (/dev/sda3). Then start the zeroshell and from within the console did a copy of all the files of the /lib folder to /DB/lib. After that i copied the firmware files to /DB/lib/firmware/bnx2

then i created 2 scripts
pre-boot script:

/bin/ln -vsfn /DB/lib /lib
/bin/modprobe -v bnx2

and the post-boot script:
ln -sfn /cdrom/lib /lib

reboot and now everything works like a charm

Hope this helps!

Regards

[koodee]

Hi,

I had the same problem yesterday, your post helped me but did not solved the problem entirely. Here is how I did it.

On my server, when I try to set an ethernet interface up, it doesn’t work, and dmesg tells me that bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1b.fw is missing.

I started by copying the content of /lib on /DB, and added the missing firmware in it.
My troubles started when I had to use the preboot and postboot scripts. Without the ethernet interfaces, I coudn’t access the web interface, so I had to write the scripts manually.

For the postboot, no problem, it was executed and I was able to see it in the log file, but couldn’t get the preboot to run.

I finally found an other solution :
mount –bind /DB/lib/firmware /lib/firmware

After that, I was able to get my interfaces up. Just had to add it in the postboot script to automate this at every boot.

Thanks for your post that confirmed me I was on the right way, and I hope this can help someone.

[frnty]

Yes you are right. I forgot to write that for the first time you have to manually run the commands from within the shell in order to activate the network.

But take a look in /Database/var/system/… there is the folder that all the scripts are there and you can modify them by hand 🙂

regards

[millap]

Hi All,

I had the same issue with ZS 3.0.0 –

[ 12.131474] bnx2 0000:01:00.0: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c4000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:aa:f7:71:e9:94
[ 12.134249] bnx2 0000:01:00.1: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c6000000, IRQ 17, node addr 00:cc:f6:73:e9:96
[ 12.136264] bnx2 0000:02:00.0: eth2: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c0000000, IRQ 16, node addr d4:dd:51:d9:0b:46
[ 12.138303] bnx2 0000:02:00.1: eth3: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c2000000, IRQ 17, node addr d4:ff:50:d9:0b:47

[ 22.415149] bnx2: Can’t load firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw”
[ 22.431915] bnx2: Can’t load firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw”
[ 22.441019] bnx2: Can’t load firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw”
[ 22.450251] bnx2: Can’t load firmware file “bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw”

My solution was to edit the ISO file (ZeroShell 3.0.0) and add the necessary fw file to the /firmware/bnx2 directory (within the ISO). I used and ISO editor to do this.

After this, both 5709 and 5716 cards loaded and I could use them.

[ 17.025908] bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.2.1 (Dec 18, 2011)
[ 17.027899] bnx2 0000:01:00.0: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c4000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:aa:f7:71:e9:94
[ 17.029783] bnx2 0000:01:00.1: eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c6000000, IRQ 17, node addr 00:cc:f6:73:e9:96
[ 17.032038] bnx2 0000:02:00.0: eth2: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c0000000, IRQ 16, node addr d4:dd:51:d9:0b:46
[ 17.034003] bnx2 0000:02:00.1: eth3: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem c2000000, IRQ 17, node addr d4:ff:50:d9:0b:47

Regards
millap

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