Install the NIC Broadcom 5720 driver on the DELL R720 Server

A few days ago, the company purchased a new server, DELL R720. After installing and installing CentOS 5.6, it found that only lo exists and there is no eth * Nic, after several queries, rhel5.x or centos 5 was installed for newer machines such as r620 and r720. x system, without its NIC driver, so we need to install it ourselves
NIC Driver, http://zh-cn.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php
We know the network card type we need.

Find the Linux driver

Download it and upload it to the server,

1. Make sure that the following packages are installed on your server; otherwise, an error will be reported.
[Root @ localhost ~] # Yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
[Root @ localhost ~] # Yum install kernel-devel

If you are using virtualization, you must also install kernel-xen-devel.
[Root @ localhost ~] # Yum install kernel-xen-devel

2. pressurize the file and generate the installation package
[Root @ localhost ~] # Unzip linux-3.133d.zip
[Root @ localhost ~] # Cd Server/Linux/Driver
[Root @ localhost ~] # Rpm-ivh tg3-3.133d-1.src.rpm
[Root @ localhost ~] # Cd/usr/src/RedHat/SPECS
[Root @ localhost ~] # Rpmbuild-bb tg3.spec
[Root @ localhost ~] # Cd/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/x86_64
[Root @ localhost ~] # Rpm-ivh tg3-3.133d-1.x86_64.rpm

3. Load modules
[Root @ localhost ~] # Modprobe tg3
[Root @ localhost ~] # Vim/etc/modprobe. conf
Alias eth0 tg3
Alias eth1 tg3
Alias eth2 tg3
Alias eth3 tg3

4. Restart the server and the NIC will be displayed.

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