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

[Manuel Wolfshant]

On 12/14/2015 04:55 PM, 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.
>
> Now the issue is that the client does not want a kernel update. How 
> can install the Broadcom tg3 driver without upgrading the kernel. 
> Apparently got to know that it is looking for “rhel5_drivers_pci_u7” 
> file, but this is not available directly and is delivered with the 
> kernel upgrade.
>
> Can anybody advise me on how to install this without doing the kernel 
> upgrade. I know this is old and has several bugs which are a concern, 
> but the client needs this. I cannot change this requirement. Can I get 
> some advise here.
>
You cannot do that unless you recompile the drivers against the old kernel.
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