Hi,
I am using a new network interface card, BCM57508 NetXtreme-E 200G.
(Card Details : Broadcom BCM57508 NetXtreme-E 200GbE OCP NIC 3.0 Adapter is FAST)
This is my kernel detail: 5.14.0-362.8.1.el9_3.x86_64
Will there any native kernel driver modules in Rocky 9.3 to help to use this Broadcom card?
If not, is there any Rocky 9 driver package available for this card?
Where is the Rocky 9 repository for device driver packages?
For more actionable card details, do use lspci -nn
Example:
$ lspci -nn | grep -i net
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM [8086:15bb] (rev 10)
This did reveal that my card has device ID: 8086:15bb
Obviously, I do already know that it has driver ‘e1000e’:
$ lspci -s 00:1f.6 -v
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (7) I219-LM (rev 10)
DeviceName: Onboard Lan
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 83e0
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 130
Memory at b3200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: e1000e
Kernel modules: e1000e
but I could have asked with the device ID whether kernel has any even if I had no device:
$ modprobe -c | grep -i '8086.*15bb'
alias pci:v00008086d000015BBsv*sd*bc*sc*i* e1000e
ELRepo is the third-party repo that offers kernel modules (drivers) for many hardware that Red Hat omits from RHEL. See deviceids [ELRepo Wiki]
That is easy: no, there will not. Simply because the 9.3 will never get any updates any more. That did stop when 9.4 was released, and even 9.4 has been unsupported since 9.5 was released. When 9.6 is released in May-June, the 9.5 stops being supported, etc.
Does 9.5 have driver that 9.3 did not? Possible, if hardware is new. If not, then a request to ELRepo would be the mitigation.
Hi,
How to get to know what the maximum bandwidth these drivers are supporting.
Will it support 100 Gb ?
Hey, we don’t even know yet what driver supports the BCM57508 NetXtreme-E 200G. For that the device ID is the first step.
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