Compiling BCM5700 into non-modular kernel.

Ray Van Dolson — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:19:38 GMT

I'd like to compile the BCM5700 driver into my non-modular kernel so I can use it instead of the RedHat tg3 driver.

I see in the readme in the -src.rpm (obtained at this URL: http://h18023.www1.hp.com/support/files/server/us/download/21669.html) that the driver package originally included a .patch file for 2.4 series kernels for this very purpose. However apparently HP removed this when repackaging it ... and in any case I am running Kernel 2.6.

Any suggestions? Should I get the driver straight from Broadcom, or is there a way to compile the bcm5700 driver statically into a 2.6.x kernel?

Thanks.

Re: Compiling BCM5700 into non-modular kernel.

Ray Van Dolson — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 11:57:05 GMT

Well, just an update--I grabbed the BCM5700 driver from www.broadcom.com drive which *does* include a 2.6.x kernel patch and it compiled in just fine. Appears to work too...

Seems like I'd read somewhere to only use HP's BCM driver, not Broadcom's. *shrug*

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