[PVE-User] Update/Alternative NetXen Firmware in pve-firmware

[Tiziano Müller]

Hi everyone

We had some serious problems with the firmware provided in pve-firmware
package with a HP 10Gb Dual-Port Nic (it's an OEM NetXen Multi Port):
the firmware crashed every 5-10 seconds resulting in connection loss.

Replacing the firmware using the one found in the HP driver package from
[1] solved our problem. The driver package carries the version number
4.0.534 while the firmware in the pve-firmware package has version
4.0.517. Although I'm not sure whether the firmware works also with
other NetXen-based OEM-NICs of the same type.

Can you maybe update the NetXen firmware in the pve-firmware package?
If not, what do you propose to prevent our firmware to be ignored once
we update pve-firmware again? (I currently removed the phanfw.bin
manually to make sure nx3fwmn.bin gets loaded).

Btw, the QLogic-Firmware for the qla2xxx-driver could use an update too.

Thanks in advance,
best regards,

Tiziano Mueller

[1]
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=1121516&swItem=MTX-3cc2186b848743b6808739b44b&prodNameId=3288134&swEnvOID=4006&swLang=8&taskId=135&mode=4&idx=2

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