[elrepo] Installing Broadcom tg3 3-3.137k dirvers for CentOS 5.4 - Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5

[Trevor Hemsley]

On 14/12/15 14:55, Jagdish S. Varma wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We need to install a 4 Port Broadcom Gigabit NIC Adapter of BCM5719
> controller on a Linux System running CentOS 5.4 having kernel
> 2.6.18-164-el5.
>
> When we attempt to install the drivers using Yum or software
> installer, it needs dependencies available thru a kernel update
> 2.6.18-407-el5.
>

You should point out to your client that 2.6.18-164 is a 5.4 kernel and
has been unsupported since the release of 5.5 in early *2010*. They have
all the security vulnerabilities from that point onwards plus all of the
bugs that have been fixed since. They really really need to update.
Would they run a copy of Windows XP that hadn't been patched since 2009??

Trevor
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