RHEL5.11 Emulex 10Gb NIC (be3) firmware upgrade via ethtool -f

[oiram_audab]

Hello,

Trying to upgrade RHEL5.11 Emulex 10Gb NIC (be3) firmware upgrade via ethtool -f and getting below error. Anyone faced the same issue and had a sollution?

[root@spptestwin680g7 firmware]# ethtool -f eth0 oc11-11.1.183.23.ufi
Flashing failed: Operation not supported
[root@spptestwin680g7 firmware]#

[root@spptestwin680g7 firmware]# ethtool -i eth0
driver: be2net
version: 4.2.116r
firmware-version: 10.7.110.31
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:02:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: no
[root@spptestwin680g7 firmware]#