error msgs during today's kernel update

[Fred Smith]

doing today's updates gives this during the kernel update:

Installing     : kernel-PAE-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686                                                                  32/70 
W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql2500_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko

I think these are wireless bits, no? If so they don't matter to me
since my eeepc 901 has rt286sta, but still I've never seen these
happen in earlier updates, so something looks wrong.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW [phone]]

On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, fred smith wrote:
> doing today's updates gives this during the kernel update:
>
> Installing     : kernel-PAE-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686                                                                  32/70
> W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2500_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
>
> I think these are wireless bits, no? If so they don't matter to me
> since my eeepc 901 has rt286sta, but still I've never seen these
> happen in earlier updates, so something looks wrong.

FWIW, I've been seeing this ever since the beta, at least.

I'm getting something nastier when trying to install the kernel, for 
which, I'll start another thread.

[Martin Airs]

On 12/01/2009 05:11 PM, fred smith wrote:
> doing today's updates gives this during the kernel update:
>
> Installing     : kernel-PAE-2.6.31.6-145.fc12.i686                                                                  32/70
> W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2500_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
>
> I think these are wireless bits, no? If so they don't matter to me
> since my eeepc 901 has rt286sta, but still I've never seen these
> happen in earlier updates, so something looks wrong.

I got this as well, But I think/hope its harmless, it doesn't affect me 
anyway

at the end of the day if one needed to use those modules I presume one 
would just install the firmware bin's into /lib/firmware

tho why they choose to tell us about it during the update I don't know, 
maybe they're actually meant to be there but aren't because they're 
proprietary or something

Martin