Re: updating bcm5820-1.81

On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 03:13:59PM -0500, Edson Manners wrote:
> I just installed RH 7.2 on a Dell Poweredge 2550 and I tried updating the 
> kernel using up2date. I got a failed dependency for bcm5820-1.81.
> 
> It turns out that  I have bcm5820-1.17-6 on the box. And this may be for 
> either a braodcom NIC or a braodcom Fiber channel card in the box. Where can 
> I get this rpm update?

The dependency is encoded as a conflict with the older version because
version 1.17 of the bcm5820 userland stuff won't work with the newer
version of the driver which is included in the kernel update.

When we added the aep1000 support to RHL 7.3, we decided to just merge
the aep1000 and bcm5820 stuff into a single package (instead of adding
yet another package to the distribution) and called the result hwcrypto.
You should be able to obtain the hwcrypto package for RHL 7.2 from the
same location where you retrieved the kernel update.

Then again, if you don't have a BCM5820 card in your system, you can
also just remove the bcm5820 package before upgrading the kernel,
because it's of no use on your system anyway.

Cheers,

Nalin