Hi all

I'm facing difficulties to build the broadcom netxtreme2 bnx2 driver with kernel 3.2.31 on debian. I guess I'm doing something wrong and would need some help.

Basically, I get the following error when I build the driver :

Consequently, I tried to create the following link :
Retried the build and this time, I got the following error :
Maybe my link is not pointing to the proper target. The kernel is 64bits and I'm pointing it to x86... But there is no "a64" directory in "include/arch"... Could this be the root cause of my error ?

(the x86_64 directory is only containing the bzImage I generated)

Does someone have an idea ?
Thanks a lot
best regards
Julien

Additionnal informations:
The driver is available here : http://www.broadcom.com/support/lice...nux-7.4.21.zip
/usr/src/linux points to /usr/src/linux-3.2.31
The operating system is Debian 6.0.5

I think it should be : 1) cd /usr/src/linux/include/
2) # rm asm
3) # ln -s asm-generic/ asm

Hello

thank you for your answer, i've tried to point asm to asm-generic but no change...

http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethe...rivers.php#tg3
> "What are the Linux tg3, bnx2, bnx2x and b44 drivers?"

> "If you are using the latest upstream kernel from www.kernel.org,
you generally do not need to download the Linux driver packages from
Broadcom as the latest upstream kernel has the latest Linux driver patches."

I need really the bnx2 driver because it's a Netxtreme2 network card (5709).

You are right, that driver is already included in the kernel. However, I won't enter too much in details but that driver doesn't seem to implement properly the MSI... We are facing a lack of performance because my developpers say that all is sent to cpu0 instead of dispatching interrupts among all the cpus. That's the reason why I'd like to rebuild that driver so as to check if all is fine.

We are using the tg3 driver on other servers (equiped with other nics) and all is working fine with this one, but our MSI issue is another story...