Alan,

On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 22:34, Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 26 August 2010 10:19, Markus Neteler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> I hoped to find the NetXen driver in SL 5.5 but it does not seem to be in
>> Linux fep 2.6.18-194.11.1.el5 #1 SMP Tue Aug 10 16:39:28 EDT 2010
>> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> The network card is this:
>>
>> lspci  | grep NetX
>> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
>> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
>> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
>> Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12)
>> 08:00.0 Ethernet controller: NetXen Incorporated NXB-10GCX4 10-Gigabit
>> Ethernet PCIe Adapter with CX4 copper interface (rev 25)
>
> Markus,
>
> The most precise way of determining exactly which driver is required
> for a particular device is via the Vendor:Device ID Pairing (a.k.a.
> the device fingerprint).

I see...

> In you particular case, above, I would be interested in seeing the
> output returned by --
>
> /sbin/lspci -n | grep -E '03:00.0|07:00.0|08:00.0'

Here it is:

/sbin/lspci -n | grep -E '03:00.0|07:00.0|08:00.0'
03:00.0 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)
07:00.0 0200: 14e4:164c (rev 12)
08:00.0 0200: 4040:0002 (rev 25)

> I would then use the technique, as shown in FAQ #4 at
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/FAQ --

I didn't find those IDs here
http://elrepo.org/tiki/DeviceIDs

> grep -i VendorID /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i DeviceID

[neteler@fep ~]$ cat /lib/modules/*/modules.alias | grep -i
'14e4:164c\|14e4:164c\|4040:0002'
[neteler@fep ~]$

> Hope this helps.

I assume (if I got it right) that the use of the HP vendor SRPM is ok.

thanks,
Markus