[elrepo] NetXtreme II BCM5709 Ethernet card

Trevor Hemsley themsley at voiceflex.com
Fri Jun 15 05:46:25 EDT 2018


On 15/06/18 10:43, Jim Eitel wrote:
> 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.

My first question would be: do you need to be running kernel-lt for some
other reason? The distro kernel will almost certainly support those
cards out of the box without needing anything newer.

Trevor


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