On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:46:08PM -0700, Gary wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply. I, too, am running squeeze -- maybe I > forgot to mention that. I'm a regular updater as well. In fact, I was > just running an update before checking my email and found the > following unrelated issue with a Broadcom network adapter I'm using > (see below)... I'm worried that if I reboot now that my card won't > work but those files don't exist currently so I'm not sure what to > suggest. The files in /lib/firmware appear to be binary blobs but I > don't know for certain.
The Tigon 3 network adapter will work just fine without the firmware in most cases. I have an amd64 machine with the same network card and it doesn't need the firmware. > update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-powerpc64 > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3 > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for module tg3 These two files are optional; if present, they enable TSO (TCP Segment Offloading), a optimization to maximize throughput. If you don't have them, then you don't get TSO, but the card will work normally. > W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3.bin for module tg3 This is important if you have an early model card (a 5701 rev A0), because it contains a patch for a significant bug. Otherwise, it's irrelevant. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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