[Intel-wired-lan] How to update firmware?

[Fujinaka, Todd]

What part? The 1G parts didn't have much firmware (only one had a little) and some of the 10G parts didn't, either.

We don't release the source to the firmware updater and there might not be an update for you anyway.

Todd Fujinaka
Software Application Engineer
Datacenter Engineering Group
Intel Corporation
todd.fujinaka at intel.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On Behalf Of Paul Menzel
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 12:39 PM
To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] How to update firmware?

Dear Linux folks,


How can I update the firmware of Intel network cards with free software utilities? Dell provides a binary to update the firmware, and it worked, but I’d like to have the sources. In this case, it was about the device below.

```
$ dmesg | grep igb
[…]
[   18.439815] igb: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network Driver - version 
5.4.0-k
[   18.466882] igb: Copyright (c) 2007-2014 Intel Corporation.
[   18.530769] igb 0000:04:00.0: added PHC on eth0
[   18.530772] igb 0000:04:00.0: Intel(R) Gigabit Ethernet Network 
Connection
[   18.530773] igb 0000:04:00.0: eth0: (PCIe:5.0Gb/s:Width x2) 
e4:43:4b:13:51:f4
[   18.531091] igb 0000:04:00.0: eth0: PBA No: G61346-018
[   18.531092] igb 0000:04:00.0: Using MSI-X interrupts. 8 rx queue(s), 
8 tx queue(s)
[…]
$ ethtool -i etrh0
driver: ixgbe
version: 5.1.0-k
firmware-version: 0x8000095c, 18.8.9
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:01:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: yes
```


Kind regards,

Paul
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