NIC Driver Update

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Hey folks,

Would appreciate help on properly updating NIC drivers on an older Dell R610 running Ubuntu. Dell's site is utterly confusing and not really helpful.

This is my output:

root@none:~# lspci -v | grep Ethernet -A 1
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 1                         
        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
--
01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 2                         
        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
--
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 3                         
        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 32
--
02:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        DeviceName: Embedded NIC 4                         
        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33
--
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        Subsystem: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 34
--
04:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        Subsystem: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35

root@none:/etc# lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS
Release:        22.04
Codename:       jammy

Thanks in advance.

 

[dos2unix]

Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet

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Doesn't look like there has been an update to this driver since kernel 3.17.
You likely have the latest.