Bug#1038610: firmware-bnx2x has an older version of broadcom drivers. This has been fixed for bookworm but not bullseye

[tomas347]

Package: firmware-bnx2x
Version: 20210315-3
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: tomas.lei...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Dear Maintainer,


* What led up to the situation?
I found that my network card was crashing and eventually lost all
network connectivity and the OS stopped recognizing the card. I
initially had to replace the card but the same thing happened on
bullseye.
* What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
ineffective)?
I manually installed bnx2x-e1-7.13.21.0.fw, bnx2x-e1h-7.13.21.0.fw,
bnx2x-e2-7.13.21.0.fw, and now it works perfectly. This has been
fixed for bookworm but not bullseye. There are many people with
this issue and I found this workaround after many people debugged
it.
* What was the outcome of this action?
Fixed my network card and I never had any more issues.
* What outcome did you expect instead?
Is it possible to update this package on bullseye?
Note: I did not submit this report on the machine that had these
issues, please disregard the kernel info from where this bug has been
generated.

Thanks for your time,

Best regards,


Tomas Leite de Castro

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-21-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

[Debian Bug Tracking System]

Processing control commands:

> fixed -1 20220913-1
Bug #1038610 [firmware-bnx2x] firmware-bnx2x has an older version of broadcom drivers. This has been fixed for bookworm but not bullseye
Marked as fixed in versions firmware-nonfree/20220913-1.
> tag -1 bullseye
Bug #1038610 [firmware-bnx2x] firmware-bnx2x has an older version of broadcom drivers. This has been fixed for bookworm but not bullseye
Added tag(s) bullseye.
> severity -1 important
Bug #1038610 [firmware-bnx2x] firmware-bnx2x has an older version of broadcom drivers. This has been fixed for bookworm but not bullseye
Severity set to 'important' from 'minor'

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1038610: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1038610
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[Ben Hutchings]

Control: fixed -1 20220913-1
Control: tag -1 bullseye
Control: severity -1 important

On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 18:15 -0500, tomas347 wrote:
> Package: firmware-bnx2x
> Version: 20210315-3
> Severity: minor
> Tags: patch
> X-Debbugs-Cc: tomas.lei...@tecnico.ulisboa.pt
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
>
> * What led up to the situation?
> I found that my network card was crashing and eventually lost all
> network connectivity and the OS stopped recognizing the card. I
> initially had to replace the card but the same thing happened on
> bullseye.
> * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
> ineffective)?
> I manually installed bnx2x-e1-7.13.21.0.fw, bnx2x-e1h-7.13.21.0.fw,
> bnx2x-e2-7.13.21.0.fw, and now it works perfectly. This has been
> fixed for bookworm but not bullseye. There are many people with
> this issue and I found this workaround after many people debugged
> it.

[...]

I think we never added this because we didn't expect stable kernel
changes to require newer firmware.

I'll try to get this fixed in the next point release for bullseye.

Ben.


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Ben Hutchings
compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source