BCM5709 now not supported in Solaris 10 5/09

After such a long battle to get these NIC's behaving (refer other post in this forum) I was surprised to read this in the Sol 10 5/09 release notes:
http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/820-7273/chapter2-1000?l=en&a=view
===quote===
x86: bnx Driver Does Not Support Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 Chipset (6637053)
The Broadcom NetXtreme II 5709 (BCM5709) chipset is not supported in the Solaris 10 5/09 release.
Workaround: Download the bnx driver from the http://www.broadcom.com/support/ethernet_nic/downloaddrivers.php web site.
===quote===
So after long discussions to NOT use the broadcom driver and use the Sun version of the same thing for Sol10 Upd8, the opposite it true for Sol10 Upd9!!!!
Thoughts? Will the dozens of server types using this chipset be upgradeable?

Run `/usr/X11R6/bin/scanpci` and see what type of network adapter you have.
Download the drivers for it and place them in /kernel/drv and /kernel/drv/amd64 (depending on your CPU architecture). Sometimes they'll have their own package installer so you can use `pkgadd -d . package_name` on the directory your uncompressed it (read the instruction on the download).
After that is done, sometimes the device ID will still not match your card's so you need to give Solaris a little help by telling it which driver to load with add_drv (it modified /etc/name_to_major, /etc/driver_aliases, etc). Eg.:
# add_drv -i pci8086,10bc e1000g (for a intel chipset)
# bootadm update-archive
# reboot
I've had a desktop computer with a Broadcom adapter but I don't know if it was the same as yours. Anyway, I downloaded the BCME driver from Broadcom and it worked fine.
Edited by: gtirloni on Nov 26, 2010 8:24 AM

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