--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Rick Stevens <ricks(a)nerd.com> wrote:
From: Rick Stevens <ricks(a)nerd.com>
Subject: Re: W: Possible missing firmware ???.fw.bin?? for module ??????.ko
To: "For testers of Fedora Core development releases"
<fedora-test-list(a)redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, 3:30 PM
Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear fellow testers,
>
> Has anyone noticed something like the Subject line?
>
> Installing :
kernel-2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64
10/87
> W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module
aic94xx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module
qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module
qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module
qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module
qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module
qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module
qla2xxx.ko
>
>
> Does it mean that if we have the above firmware on our
machines, that the kernel modules are not there because of
error?
The firmware files are expected to be installed in
/lib/firmware by the
modules. Note that that's "/lib/firmware" regardless
of 32- or 64-bit
systems.
The QLogic firmware files (the qla2xxx driver is for QLogic
fiberchannel
HBAs) are installed by making sure you install the
appropriate RPMs:
[root@prophead ~]# rpm -qf
/lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
ql23xx-firmware-3.03.27-1.fc10.noarch
[olivares@n6355-19134 ~]$ uname -r
2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64
[olivares@n6355-19134 ~]$ rpm -qf /lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin
error: file /lib/firmware/ql2300_fw.bin: No such file or directory
So "yum install ql*-firmware*" should get you all of
them. You're
running a lot of fiberchannel stuff?
I actually don't know how all of this works. I just installed rawhide x86_64 on a
spare machine at work^{1} and this is what I see. Do I really need to install all of that
firmware?
Wow! I do,
but only on big,
honking (hundreds of TB) storage farms using EMC arrays.
As for the Adaptec file (aic94xx), I don't know. I'm
sure there's an RPM for that as well. I haven't run an
Adaptec card that needed
firmware in a long time.
As always, thanks for your input! :) You give excellent advice and I always look forward
to reading your posts.
Regards,
Antonio
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