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.leite.cas...@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.


-- 
Ben Hutchings
compatible: Gracefully accepts erroneous data from any source

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