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bnx2 Broadcom NetExtreme II driver too old for new hardware

Bug #400250 reported by Marty Lucich
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #435185: bnx2: Please support BCM5716 chipset. Edit Remove
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Nominated for Hardy by Robert Sander

Bug Description

Package: ubuntu-8.04.02 hardy

The latest batch of servers received by my employer are Dell R410 boxes that use the BCM 5716
chip for the NIC. The version of the bnx2 driver included in Hardy is 1.6.9 and it doesn't know that
it supports this chip. The later versions of this driver do.

Would it be possible to get a newer version of the bnx2 driver into Hardy?

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Marty Lucich (mar3ty) wrote :

If there is a problem using the most recent version of the bnx2 driver I have confirmed
the older 1.7.9-2 driver included in CentOS 5 works with this hardware.

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ciaranh (ciaranh) wrote :

Any movement on this bug?

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Jose Juan Montes (jjmontes) wrote :

Hi there. Also impacted by this. Ubuntu 8.04.3 can't detect Broadcom NetXtreme 2 5716.

As a matter of fact, Ubuntu 8.10 does work correctly.

As 8.04 is a LTS, we would also love to see this hardware supported.

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