Why after upgrading the firmware of the NIC and then after reboot the NIC drivers got blacklisted ?
Issue
- After firmware upgrade on
ProLiant DL585 G7
, it was found that all of the network interfaces were unavailable, further debugging shown the NIC drivers are blacklisted in the file/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
- Removing the blacklist entry , resolved the issue and the interface were brought up.
- Why after upgrading this issue occurred ?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
- ProLiant DL585 G7
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