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<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>
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<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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black"><img width="71" height="70" id="Picture_x0020_6" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D136AD.90067740" alt="connoiseur"></span><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Thanks & Regards,<br>
</span></b><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Jagdish S. Varma</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">
| <b>Managing Director</b></span><span style="color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Connoiseur Electronics Pvt. Ltd</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">.
| “Connoiseur House”, #12, 13th Main,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">12th Cross, HAL II Stage,Bangalore-560 008 | Karnataka| India.</span><span style="color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Tel: +91-80-41152203 Fax: +91-80-41152646 | Mobile: +91-8277041000 / 9342509600
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW">Email:
<b><a href="mailto:jsvarma@connoiseur.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">jsvarma@connoiseur.com</span></a></b> | Web:
<a href="http://www.connoiseur.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">http://www.connoiseur.com</span></a></span><span style="color:#44546A;mso-fareast-language:ZH-TW"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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