Broadcom NetXtreme II Driver for RHEL 5 - ThinkServer RD120

Broadcom NetXtreme II Driver for RHEL 5 - ThinkServer RD120

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Broadcom NetXtreme II Driver for RHEL 5 - ThinkServer RD120

3KB
Ver.1.7.6b

Linux

29 Sep 2008
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Readme File

r4etn00sr27.txt

3 KB
Ver.1.7.6b

Linux

29 Sep 2008
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Description

Broadcom NetXtreme II Driver for RHEL 5

Compatible Devices

This package installs drivers for NetXtreme II BCM570x-based Gigabit Ethernet on the following systems:

  • ThinkServer RD120 (type 6444, 6445, 6446, 6447)

What's More

This README contains a set of instructions on how to retrieve RPM packages from our server for your device

Note: Configured with the following operating systems:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64

Additional Information:

Click here to install the package using YUM client

Downloading the package

Download the packages from the links below:

Package name
i586
kmod-brcm-bnx2-1.7.6b-7.i686.rpm Download now
kmod-brcm-bnx2-PAE-1.7.6b-7.i686.rpm Download now
kmod-brcm-bnx2-xen-1.7.6b-7.i686.rpm Download now
x64
kmod-brcm-bnx2-1.7.6b-7.x86_64.rpm Download now
kmod-brcm-bnx2-xen-1.7.6b-7.x86_64.rpm Download now

 

Installing the package
  1. unpackage the FixID into it's own directory
  2. run './install.sh --update'.

Note: If a compatible version is found in the fixid but the OS vendor already includes a version of the driver, the script will not install the device driver. The OS version can be overridden with an invocation of './install.sh --update --override'.

Uninstalling the package

After successfully installing a device driver using IBM's driver tools, there will be a corresponding entry in the RPM database.

  1. Query the RPM database for 'genericnetworkdriver' with: 'rpm -qa | grep genericnetworkdriver'.
  2. This should output something similar to: 'ibm-genericnetworkdriver_for_2.6.12_55.EL-smp- 1.0_2.6.12_31.EL'.
  3. Enter 'rpm -e ibm-genericnetworkdriver_for_2.6.12_55.EL-smp- 1.0_2.6.12_31.EL' to remove the device driver
Limitation

You need to have Perl, rpm-build, and rpm-lib installed to use the installation scripts and its helper 'driver tool'. These are likely already installed, but if not, they can be found on the installation media for your Linux distribution.

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Alias Id: MIGR-70636

Last Modified Date: 03 Nov 2017

Original Publish Date: 29 Sep 2008

Document ID: DS002895

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