[SOLVED] BCM5708 works with Live CD but not DVD install

[mailedfist]

I have had no problems at all with eth0 on my HP ProLiant ML350 when running from the Mageia 2 Live CD.

Having now installed from the DVD though, eth0 does not work. It didn't work to download updates during the install and doesn't work now the install has finished.
When configured to use DHCP (same as the Live setup), no IP address is assigned. Using manual override also doesn't yield a working network.

If I resort to trying to set it up from the command line as root

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ifconfig eth0 inet 192.168.1.18

yields

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SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

Any ideas will be gratefully received!

[zxr250cc]

The LIVE CD has proprietary software in it and makes the card function because the driver for it is in there, whereas the DVD is totally based on FREE software and obviously does not have the driver or your ethernet card would work. Do you have another computer so you can download the drivers? Or use the LIVE CD to download the drivers you want and put them in a file to access when you reboot.

Just a thought..

Cheers,

gcd

[mailedfist]

Thanks very much - I hadn't thought of it being a free/non-free problem because the NIC was being recognised. However, the symptoms are exactly the same as when Broadcom WiFi cards are running with only free software.
I'll start searching the Live CD for the correct driver.

[mailedfist]

OK, I was not at my best when I first posted on this

The reason is blatantly obvious when one looks in the log - the firmware is missing.

dmesg yields loads of

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bnx2: Can't load firmware file "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw"

I think it should probably be in /lib/firmware/bnx2, but there is no such directory.
So, I will now use a well-known search engine and look for it!

[ah7013]

Looks like you will find it in the kernel-firmware-nonfree package (in the Nonfree repo of course )

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$ urpmf -m --files bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
kernel-firmware-nonfree:Nonfree Release:/lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw


[mailedfist]

Many thanks again to zxr250cc for putting me on the right track.

The firmware is non-free. All that is needed is to install kernel-firmware-nonfree-20120421-3.mga2.nonfree.noarch.rpm (or a more recent equivalent). Then do an

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ifconfig eth0 up

and all should be well.

[doktor5000]

Also documented in https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Mageia_2_Err ... a_firmware