Mark Haney wrote:
Rick Stevens wrote:
Mark Haney wrote:
Okay, I'm still unable to build a correct initrd to include the
QLogic 2300 FC card I have in a couple of machines. I've tried
several methods (from scripts to cracking open the existing initrd)
and nothing seems to work. The firmware IS on the system (via an
RPM) and the qla2xxx module gets loaded, but I cannot get it to load
on boot. initrd complains about the firmware not being available.
Surely others out there have these cards in use still and keep there
systems up to date, so what am I doing wrong? Can someone walk me
through this. I have one system stuck at FC6 because the newer
kernel don't include the firmware and I can't upgrade until I can get
this resolved.
Are you sure the firmware is in /lib/firmware? Check that directory
and verify you have "ql2300_fw.bin" or "ql2322_fw.bin" there. Don't
necessarily rely on the fact you have the RPM installed...something
may have wiped the files.
Yes it's definitely there. I just don't understand why a card so common
would have the firmware dropped from initrd like this. It's really
frustrating for those of us with several systems with those FC cards to
suddenly be stuck at FC6 and can go no further.
Uh, I've run QLA2340s very happily on F8. I have not tried it on F9.
As I see it, the available QLogic firmware RPMs are:
ql23xx-firmware-3.03.20-1.fc8.1
ql2400-firmware-4.00.27-1.fc8.1
ql2200-firmware-2.02.08-1.fc8.1
ql2100-firmware-1.19.38-1.fc8.1
Are you certain the "alias scsi_hostadapter" lines are in the
modprobe.conf file so the initrd is built correctly? If you build the
initrd manually and specify the "-v" flag, do you see the modules and
firmware being loaded into the image? You should.
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