MRG Realtime kernel is unable to load bnx2x firmware
Issue
- Firmware
bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.0
not found forkernel-rt-3.10.0-514.rt56.215.el6rt.noarch
. No interface will be started. - After upgrading the
kernel-rt
package the system is unable to initialize the Broadcom NetXtreme II network cards - Messages are seen as follows:
bnx2x: [bnx2x_init_firmware:13447(eth0)]Can't load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.1.0.fw
bnx2x: [bnx2x_func_hw_init:5785(eth0)]Error loading firmware
bnx2x: [bnx2x_nic_load:2727(eth0)]HW init failed, aborting
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat MRG Realtime 2.5
kernel-rt-3.10.0-514.rt56
kernel series- Broadcom/QLogic NetXtreme II NIC using
bnx2x
driver
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