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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/14/2015 04:55 PM, Jagdish S.
Varma wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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You cannot do that unless you recompile the drivers against the old
kernel.<br>
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