Comment 23 for bug 842560

Hi Joseph,

Ok, so I just installed the RC kernel as suggested above and can confirm that this bug still exists:-

$ uname -a
Linux proxyauth0 3.1.0-030100rc10-generic #201110200610 SMP Thu Oct 20 10:11:32 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ lspci | grep -i ethernet
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)

$ lsmod | grep bnx
bnx2 86844 0

$dmesg | grep -i bnx
[ 1.434629] bnx2: Broadcom NetXtreme II Gigabit Ethernet Driver bnx2 v2.1.11 (July 20, 2011)
[ 1.434661] bnx2 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
[ 1.920634] bnx2 0000:03:00.0: eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B2) PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz found at mem f8000000, IRQ 16, node addr 00:1a:4b:4c:ae:1e
[ 1.920680] bnx2 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 62.944052] bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.1.fw"
[ 62.944092] bnx2 0000:05:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 62.944107] bnx2: probe of 0000:05:00.0 failed with error -2
[ 66.259391] bnx2 0000:03:00.0: irq 46 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 66.361239] bnx2 0000:03:00.0: eth0: using MSI
[ 69.553993] bnx2 0000:03:00.0: eth0: NIC Copper Link is Up, 1000 Mbps full duplex

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules | grep eth0
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1a:4b:4c:ae:1e", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules | grep eth1
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:1a:4b:4c:ae:1c", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

$ ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1a:4b:4c:ae:1e
          inet addr:192.168.102.2 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21a:4bff:fe4c:ae1e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:793 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:595 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:75109 (75.1 KB) TX bytes:77569 (77.5 KB)
          Interrupt:16 Memory:f8000000-f8012800

$ifconfig eth1
eth1: error fetching interface information: Device not found

I'm going to try and install the daily build now and will report back the results.