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flex 10 10GB NIC drivers for the RedHat 4.x

 
DmitryZ
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flex 10 10GB NIC drivers for the RedHat 4.x

Hello All,

 

We have received a flex 10 recently and it shows up in the system as

 

Broadcome NetXtreme II BCM57711E

 

It doesn't look like HP provides a correct driver for it for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.x 64bit.

All I could find on the HP support site was a driver for

 

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=15351&prodSeriesId=2510373&swItem=MTX-7323d84da732439ca6bf359504&prodNameId=3288150&swEnvOID=2025&swLang=8&taskId=134&mode=4&idx=1

HP NC532m Dual Port 10GbE Multifuntion BL-c Adapter
HP NC532i Dual Port 10GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter

And I had to download driver from Broadcom

 

http://www.broadcom.com/support/license.php?file=NXII_10/linux-6.2.23.zip

 

And build an rpm out of it.

 

Am I doing the search wrong and the correct driver is in some other place?

 

Thank you

HP NC532m Dual Port 10GbE Multifuntion BL-c Adapter

      HP NC532i Dual Port 10GbE Multifunction BL-c Adapter
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Johan Guldmyr
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Re: flex 10 10GB NIC drivers for the RedHat 4.x

Hi!

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=3822502&lang=en&cc=us&prodTypeId=3709945&prodSeriesId=3822501&taskId=135
[Moderator edit: Removed the broken link. Please refer to https://support.hpe.com]

For the NC532m. It's a little newer than the one you found.

RHEL 4 isn't that becoming EOL soon?