trying to load bcm5700 driver (nic driver) on a compaq server

[net1man]

Received message, 'bcm5700 init_module no such device' while trying to load nic driver on a compaq DL380. Running Red Hat Adv server 2.1 (eqivalent to Red Hat 7.3)

 

[clonny2]

Try going to 3Com's website and fine the drivers for the Broadcom nic. It is their gigbit ethernet nic.

 

[3wsparky]

I have a dl320 that has duel bcm5700 cards onbroad
i'm running linux redhat es 4 but cant seem to get the dame things to install , i have run through the hp userguide and get the following when trying to rpmbuild -bb SPECS/bcm5700.spec

more of this above \/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 11780 2005-08-01 18:33:05 queue.h
-rw-r--r-- root/root 3930 2005-08-01 18:33:05 tcp_seg.c
-rw-r--r-- root/root 319626 2005-08-01 18:33:05 tigon3.c
-rw-r--r-- root/root 140018 2005-08-01 18:33:05 tigon3.h
+ STATUS=0
+ '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 0 = 0 ']'
+ /bin/chown -Rhf root .
++ /usr/bin/id -u
+ '[' 0 = 0 ']'
+ /bin/chgrp -Rhf root .
+ /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
+ exit 0
Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42437
+ umask 022
+ cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD
+ cd bcm5700-8.2.18a
+ make
make -C SUBDIRS=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bcm5700-8.2.18a modules
make: *** SUBDIRS=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/bcm5700-8.2.18a: No such file or directory. Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42437 (%build)


RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.42437 (%build)
[root@svr-cache-1 SPECS]#

any ideas what i'm doing wrong

many thanks

Terry