On Thursday 2012-10-04 23:35, Linda Walsh wrote:
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Friday 2012-09-21 23:31, Linda Walsh wrote:
I have a broadcom 1Gb ethernet card in my server that effectively goes dead in 3.3.x and works in 3.2.28. By 'dead', I mean netlink claims it does not see the device. However, it is seen by "ip" when I list links (but "ip" can't set it up or set an address on it, as I get a message that netlink thinks there is no such device).
Is this perhaps a case where a firmware file is needed, but not available? (There should be a message in dmesg, and if a FW file is really needed, the "kernel-firmware" would be the place to look in.)
Bingo.
So why does it need a firmware file post in 3.3 & higher? Or does it -- and if 'it', needs it, why isn't it 'there' (for some value of 'it', 'there')?
The kernel-firmware package is a collection of out-of-tree firmware from various vendors. You mention "broadcom-wl" in the subject, which is a kernel module name I have not seen in the original upstream kernel. So this smells terribly like something proprietary evil. So, none of this actually looks like an openSUSE problem. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org