bnx2 driver cannot find firmware

It is possible the commit below is the trigger for this:

  commit 078b0735881c7969aaf21469f3577831cddd9f8c
  Author: Michael Chan <email address hidden>
  Date: Sat Aug 29 00:02:46 2009 -0700

    bnx2: Update firmware to 5.0.0.j3.

it seems to change the firmware files required:

  -#define FW_MIPS_FILE_06 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-4.6.16.fw"
  -#define FW_RV2P_FILE_06 "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-4.6.16.fw"
  -#define FW_MIPS_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-4.6.17.fw"
  -#define FW_RV2P_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-4.6.15.fw"
  +#define FW_MIPS_FILE_06 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j3.fw"
  +#define FW_RV2P_FILE_06 "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-06-5.0.0.j3.fw"
  +#define FW_MIPS_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-5.0.0.j3.fw"
  +#define FW_RV2P_FILE_09_Ax "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09ax-5.0.0.j3.fw"
  +#define FW_RV2P_FILE_09 "bnx2/bnx2-rv2p-09-5.0.0.j3.fw"

Applied cjwatson's fix to the Lucid tree.

This bug was fixed in the package linux - 2.6.32-8.11

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linux (2.6.32-8.11) lucid; urgency=low

  [ Andy Whitcroft ]

  * Revert "SAUCE: default ATI Radeon KMS to off until userspace catches
    up"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Fix oops there is no tracer and doing unsafe
    transition."
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Fix refcounting bug causing leak of creds"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Fix cap audit_caching preemption disabling"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Fix Oops when in apparmor_bprm_set_creds"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Fix oops after profile removal"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: AppArmor disallows truncate of deleted files."
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: AppArmor fails to audit change_hat correctly"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Policy load and replacement can fail to alloc
    mem"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: AppArmor wrongly reports allow perms as
    denied"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Fix mediation of "deleted" paths"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Fix off by 2 error in getprocattr mem
    allocation"
  * Revert "SAUCE: AppArmor: Set error code after structure
    initialization."
  * Revert "AppArmor -- fix pstrace_may_access rename"
  * Revert "ubuntu: AppArmor security module"
  * Revert "SAUCE: Add config option to set a default LSM"
  * Revert "ubuntu: fsam7400 -- sw kill switch driver"
  * Revert "[Config] fsam7400 -- enable"
  * Revert "[Config] AUFS -- enable"
  * Revert "ubuntu: AUFS -- aufs2-30 20090727"
  * Revert "ubuntu: AUFS -- export various core functions -- fixes"
  * Revert "ubuntu: AUFS -- export various core functions"
  * Revert "[Config] ubuntu/iscsitarget -- disable"
  * Revert "[Config] iscsitarget -- enable"
  * Revert "ubuntu: iscsitarget -- SVN revision r214"
  * update Vcs-Git to point to the correct repository
    - LP: #493589
  * update build environment overrides to lucid
    - LP: #493589
  * [Config] enable CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
  * [Config] update all configs following AppArmor 2009-12-08 update
  * SAUCE: isapnp_init: make isa PNP scans occur async
  * [Config] fsam7400 -- enable
  * [Config] omnibook -- enable
  * [Config] cleanup CONFIG_AUDIT
  * ubuntu: AUFS -- export various core functions (aufs2-base.patch)
  * ubuntu: AUFS -- export various core functions (aufs2-standalone.patch)
  * ubuntu: AUFS -- aufs2 20091209
  * [Config] AUFS -- enable
  * [Config] iscsitarget -- enable

  [ Arjan van de Ven ]

  * SAUCE: KMS: cache the EDID information of the LVDS

  [ Colin Watson ]

  * bnx2: update d-i firmware filenames
    - LP: #494052
  * add cdc_ether to nic-usb-modules udeb
    - LP: #495060

  [ John Johansen ]

  * ubuntu: AppArmor -- mainline 2009-10-08

  [ Manoj Iyer ]

  * ubuntu: fsam7400 -- kill switch for Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M 7400
  * ubuntu: omnibook -- support Toshiba (HP) netbooks
  * ubuntu: iscsitarget --- version 1.4.19
    - LP: #494693

  [ Surbhi Palande ]

  * SAUCE: Make populate_rootfs asynchronous

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Parallelize flavour builds and packaging
  * [Config] Enable CONFIG_KSM

  [ Upstream Kernel Changes ]

  * Config option to set a default LSM
  * LSM: Add security_path_chroot().
  * LSM: Add security_path_chroot().
  * LSM: Move security_...