Allied Telesis AT-2973T (NetExtreme II) - Manual (Page 52)

Chapter 5: Installing the Linux Drivers
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Introduction
This chapter discusses the Linux drivers for the Broadcom NetXtreme II
network adapters and describes how to install them. For a description of
the drivers, see Table 3.
Limitations
This section describes the testing limitations of the following Linux drivers:
 “bnx2 Driver” on page 52
 “bnx2i Driver” on page 53
bnx2 Driver
The current version of the driver has been tested on 2.4.x kernels (starting
from 2.4.24) and all 2.6.x kernels. The driver may not compile on kernels
older than 2.4.24.
Testing is concentrated on i386 and x86_64 architectures. Only limited
testing has been done on other architectures. Minor changes to some
source files and Makefile may be needed on some kernels. Additionally,
the Makefile does not compile the cnic driver on kernels older than 2.6.16.
iSCSI offload is only supported on 2.6.16 and newer kernels.
Support for the 2.4.21 kernels is provided in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.
Table 3. Broadcom NetXtreme II Linux Drivers
Linux Driver Description
bnx2
cnic Indicates the Linux drivers for the AT-2973SX
and AT-2973T network adapters. The bnx2
driver is the networking driver and the cnic
driver supports additional features required by
the bnx2i iSCSI offload driver. The bnx2i iSCSI
driver is packaged separately.
bnx2i Indicates the Linux driver that enables iSCSI
offload on the AT-2973SX and AT-2973T
network adapters.