NIC Driver Update

Bashed · 04-28-2023, 12:22 PM

Hey folks,

Would appreciate help on properly updating NIC drivers on an older Dell R610 running Ubuntu. Dell's site is utterly confusing and not really helpful.

This is my output:

Code:

root@none:~# lspci -v | grep Ethernet -A 1

01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 1                        

        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30

--

01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 2                        

        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31

--

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 3                        

        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32

--

02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 4                        

        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33

--

04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

        Subsystem: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 34

--

04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)

        Subsystem: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet

        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35

Code:

root@none:/etc# lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

Release:        22.04

Codename:       jammy

Thanks in advance.

uteck · 04-28-2023, 01:01 PM

Is their some reason you want to update the driver?
The NIC driver is supplied by the kernel, so other then patching that in yourself if you can find the source from Dell, you could upgrade the kernel using the Ubuntu Mainline tool. https://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php...tu-linux-mint/
That is assuming the updates you are looking for made it into the kernel.

pan64 · 04-28-2023, 01:57 PM

Yes, I don't really understand why do you want to update and what. Does it work properly? Is there any problem to solve?

As far as I see the drivers of the "old" hardware are already made, they are not refreshed/updated any more. Why do you want to fix it if it works?