NetXen nx3fwct.bin firmware (fwd)

[manoj.iyer at canonical.com]

I am getting report that cdimage.ubuntu.com is too slow, and disconnects 
often. See below for details.

Anyone have any suggestions ?

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:36:00 -0800
From: Sony Chacko <sony.chacko at qlogic.com>
To: "manoj.iyer at canonical.com" <manoj.iyer at canonical.com>
Cc: Ameen Rahman <ameen.rahman at qlogic.com>
Subject: RE: NetXen nx3fwct.bin firmware (fwd)

Manoj,

This site is too slow and image download is taking way too much time and it gets disconnected often.
It would be great if could send as a CD if available or a faster site address to access from US.
Regards,
Sony

-----Original Message-----
From: manoj.iyer at canonical.com [mailto:manoj.iyer at canonical.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:58 AM
To: Sony Chacko
Cc: Ameen Rahman
Subject: RE: NetXen nx3fwct.bin firmware (fwd)


Sony,

You can get the latest ISO Images for Ubuntu Lucid from:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/

There are videos on how to install and setup Ubuntu on youtube, here is an
exmaple:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uUTO475Sps&feature=related

After you install Ubuntu, you can download and copy over the files from:

http://people.canonical.com/~manjo/lucid-netxen-kernel/

And install the .deb files by doing:

sudo dpkg -i --force-all linux-*.deb

and reboot, to boot into the new kernel. Hope this helps.

Cheers
--- manjo

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sony Chacko wrote:

> Manoj,
>
> It would be great if you have any installation and bringup instructions, We have mostly Fedora and SUSE based systems
> In our Lab.
>
> Regards,
> --Sony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: manoj.iyer at canonical.com [mailto:manoj.iyer at canonical.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:47 PM
> To: Sony Chacko
> Cc: manoj.iyer at canonical.com; Ameen Rahman
> Subject: RE: NetXen nx3fwct.bin firmware (fwd)
>
>
> The images are tagged AMD64 for historic reasons, but it will work on any
> x86_64 CPU, Intel or AMD.
>
>
> Cheers
> --- manjo
>
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Sony Chacko wrote:
>
>> Manoj,
>>
>> Can you give us an Intel image, we do not have AMD systems available here.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Sony
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ameen Rahman
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 12:28 AM
>> To: Dept_NX_Linux_NIC_Driver; Balashree Tummalapalli; Dhiraj Surana; Madhu Lakshmanan; Pankaj Surana; Varsha Ambhore
>> Subject: FW: NetXen nx3fwct.bin firmware (fwd)
>>
>> Request for Ubuntu/Debian testing. P3 only.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ameen Rahman
>> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 1:27 PM
>> To: manoj.iyer at canonical.com; Amit Salecha; dann frazier
>> Cc: Ameen Rahman
>> Subject: RE: NetXen nx3fwct.bin firmware (fwd)
>>
>> Manoj,
>>
>> We will try this and get back to you.
>>
>> If you have any instructions on how we bring the system up with these kernels please let us know. That would help to speed up the driver testing on our side.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Ameen
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: manoj.iyer at canonical.com [mailto:manoj.iyer at canonical.com]
>> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 1:04 PM
>> To: Amit Salecha; Ameen Rahman; dann frazier
>> Cc: kernel-team at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: RE: NetXen nx3fwct.bin firmware (fwd)
>>
>>
>> Ameen/Amit/Dann,
>>
>> I have integrated all the patches that Ameen and Amit pointed me to, I
>> pulled in 2 additional patches to satisfy build errors due to missing
>> defines. I have a 64bit kernel debs in
>>
>> http://people.ubuntu.com/~manjo/lucid-netxen-kernel/
>>
>> Can you pls verify that this kernel works with the netxen cards and looks
>> ok? I can then submit these patches to the lucid maintainer.
>>
>> Cheers
>> --- manjo
>>
>