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<div style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Dear Manuel Wolfshant<br>
How do I go about recompiling the drivers against the old kernel. <br>
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Jagdish S. Varma<br>
Mob: +91-8277041000 / 9342509600<br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt; font-weight:bold">From:
</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt"><a href="mailto:wolfy@nobugconsulting.ro">Manuel Wolfshant</a></span><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">ý14-ý12-ý2015 20:55</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif; font-size:11pt">Re: [elrepo] Installing Broadcom tg3 3-3.137k dirvers for CentOS 5.4 - Kernel 2.6.18-164.el5</span><br>
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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</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.</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.</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. </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.</p>
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You cannot do that unless you recompile the drivers against the old kernel.<br>
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