Bug#743006: firmware-linux-nonfree: invalid firmware file

[compunuts <compunuts@yahoo.com>]

Package: firmware-linux-nonfree
Version: 0.41
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

Broadcom NetXtremeII 5708 ( bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw )

I've downloaded manually from packages.debian.org/testing/kernel/firmware-bnx2 and other sources such as
github.com/cernekee/linux-firmware/tree/master/bnx2 as well as installing via apt with apt-get install firmware-linux-nonfree
and offical 7.0 DVD disk without any success. The system said the file is not a valid firmware file. It might be corrupt.
Finally I went to unstable tree ( packages.debian.org/unstable/kernel/firmware-bnx2 ), downloaded tar.gz file, unpack it and
copy it all over to /lib/firmware/bnx2/ folder, bring up the interface and it was viola.

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

firmware-linux-nonfree depends on no packages.

firmware-linux-nonfree recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firmware-linux-nonfree suggests:
ii  initramfs-tools  0.115

-- no debconf information