This firmware does be in boot-nonfree.iso (on both Cauldron & mga2).
Are you sure you used boot-nonfree.iso && not boot.iso?

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud, tmb

We would need more logs (just plug an USB key, then when error happen, go to console 2 and type the "bug" command)

Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO

same as https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5348 I guess

Well, I pressed Alt+F2, entered console2, type "bug", nothing happens.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Well, I pressed Alt+F2, entered console2, type "bug", nothing happens.
I mean stage1, not stage2.

we still needs logs from other ttys (kernel, stage1, ...)

I couldn't find relative logs, displayed in screen.

That's that I'm asking for (screenshots, ...)

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Thanks all :-D

I just tried mga3a1's boot-nonfree.iso on a IBM server with "Broadcom NetXtreme II" (driven by bnx2), all 4 interfaces show up w/o any firmware error (in stage 1).
But I'm not sure it needed it.

Funda, do you still see your bug with mga3a1?
If yes, note that you can rebuild drakx-installer-images with the debug option in order to get a shell and the like in order to debug further

OK, I found out the issue: we rely on /bin/sh for /hotplug, which worked accidentally b/c stage1 was bloated for KA support.
We need to rewrite it in C

CC: (none) => pterjan
Assignee: tmb => thierry.vignaud
Summary: boot-nonfree.iso does not start bnx2 NIC as it should => firmware are not loaded due to relying on shell

Created attachment 2803 [details]
C firmware loader, based on hotplug2 code

we could use this firmware loader instead (to be tested)

I don't know the API here, but some general comments:


Is there a final call to:
                echo_to_file(sysfs_path_loading, "0\n", 2);
missing here right at the end of main()? Perhaps writing the firmware itself is enough to trigger a reset to this and thus it's not needed, but figured I'd ask.

Also as the return value of echo_to_file() is never checked, it seems pointless to actually pass in the third argument. Perhaps it should just be a void instead? Either that or the return value should actually be checked!

Yes a call was missing from copy and paste :-)

I guess no :(

I've tried latest boot-nonfree.iso from cauldron (banner says 17 Sep 18:15). But still failed.

Screenshot follows.

Created attachment 2807 [details]
kernel messages

Kernel message from stage1.

Created attachment 2808 [details]
installer log

The log from mga3a1, remains the same in latest boot-nonfree.iso/

Can you try latest boot-nonfree.iso?
Kernel-3.7 has support for loading firmware files directly rather than relying on userspace

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This is fixed as of Mageia 3/Cauldron since kernel directly loads firmware now.
Mga2 being frozen, we cannot do anything for it

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
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