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  1. Hardy (8.04)
  2. Bug #435185
  3. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 435185

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Michael Goetze (mgoetze) wrote : Re: [Bug 435185] Re: bnx2: Please support BCM5716 chipset

Jose Juan Montes wrote:
> As Michael Goetze stated, the RH Bugracker is for GigE over Fibre
> (5716S).
>
> This issue seems to be a duplicate of 400250:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/400250.

Yes, that is certainly a duplicate, at my workplace we are also using
Dell R410/R210.

However, I don't believe it is strictly necessary to include the newest
version of the bnx2 driver (as Red Hat does for RHEL), rather I am told
that it should be supportable by the older driver with a one-line patch
to add the appropriate PCI ID.

We are currently working around this problem by compiling the newest
bnx2 driver against the Hardy kernel headers, however this is quite an
inconvenience for us..