Description of problem: I´ve installed a 2.4.9-e.12 summit kernel. The bcm5700 driver 2.0.27 which is shipped with the kernel does not support our second GIGABIT Ethernet Card eth1: Broadcom BCM5703 1000Base-SX found at mem fb780000, IRQ 59, node addr 001018004931 eth1: Broadcom BCM5703 Integrated Copper transceiver found eth1: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON I need the at leas 2.2.27 driver from IBM, when i compile it from the source Files and make a mdepmod -a, i get always depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.9- e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o how can this be fixed ? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. install 2.4.9-e.12summit 2. install bcm5700 2.2.28 Driver Suite 3. make, make install, modprobe bcm5700 failure Actual results: Using /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o Symbol version prefix 'smp_' /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol skb_copy_Rsmp_75cf12a5 /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol softnet_data_Rsmp_43c7a480 /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol __netdev_watchdog_up_Rsmp_de8d3129 /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb_Rsmp_95235f0e /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb_Rsmp_9ac44b35 /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_Rsmp_cce37b85 /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_Rsmp_e5e74611 /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_Rsmp_841a9865 /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o failed /lib/modules/2.4.9-e.12summit/kernel/drivers/addon/bcm5700/bcm5700.o: insmod bcm5700 failed Expected results: Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700 with Broadcom NIC Extension (NICE) ver. 2.2.27 (07/03/02) eth0: Broadcom Vigil B5700 1000Base-T found at mem f0e00000, IRQ 42, node addr 000255dc2259 eth0: Broadcom BCM5401 Copper transceiver found eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON eth1: Broadcom BCM5703 1000Base-SX found at mem fb780000, IRQ 59, node addr 001018004931 eth1: Broadcom BCM5703 Integrated Copper transceiver found eth1: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON installed Additional info: IBM X440 + Redhat AS 2.1
please use tg3 instead; that's the prefered driver for these cards. It's not possible to compile drivers like this for summit right now.
I`m using now the tg3 driver, seems to work, but with a self compiled kernel (with summit patch), it was possible to use the bcm5700 driver (to compile it from source).