[elrepo] NetXtreme II BCM5709 Ethernet card

[Jim Eitel]

I have CentOS 7 installed on a desktop with a BCM5709 ethernet
controller.  I am running kernel
4.4.136-1.el7.  This card has 4 ports but only the first 2 are
configurable.  This appears to be a 
bnx2 driver or related firmware issue.

Here is some ouput from lspci:
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
05:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709
Gigabit Ethernet
06:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM5709
Gigabit Ethernet

And from dmesg:
[    0.972743] bnx2: QLogic bnx2 Gigabit Ethernet Driver v2.2.6 (January
29, 2014)
[    0.973170] bnx2 0000:05:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    0.974280] bnx2 0000:05:00.0 eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709
1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem da000000, IRQ 18, node addr
00:10:18:96:50:10
[    0.975177] bnx2 0000:05:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    0.976296] bnx2 0000:05:00.1 eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709
1000Base-T (C0) PCI Express found at mem d8000000, IRQ 19, node addr
00:10:18:96:50:12
[    0.977549] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    0.978098] bnx2 0000:06:00.0: Firmware not running, aborting
[    0.978649] bnx2 0000:06:00.1: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[    0.979184] bnx2 0000:06:00.1: Firmware not running, aborting

>From searching around on the internet it seems like RedHat may have
addressed this very issue
quite a while back by releasing an rpm for a driver "kmod-bnx2".  You
have a version of this driver
on elrepo but it appears to be only for kernels used with el6 - not el7.

Can you point me to a solution here?  I was thinking about building from
a source rpm.
Also, I was thinking this card may be fully supported by the bnx2 driver
and associated firmware in
some later kernel?
-- 
Jim Eitel <j.eitel at cox.net>
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