N5K-C5596UP-FA with Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711 NIC

Hi,
Our customer is willing to buy a N5K-C5596UP-FA and wants to know if he can use the Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711 NIC for Fiber channel.
Any help is much appreciated?

Hi Santiago,
The Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM57711 appears to be ethernet only (
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/ps10265/ps10493/1CS57711-TB100-D5.pdf). It can do 10Gig Ethernet and iSCSI offloading.
They would need to purchase a FC HBA or CNA card depending on the design of the infrastructure to do Fiber Channel.

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Hi,
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0a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01)
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[ 943.695234] wlp10s0: direct probe to <mac removed> (try 1/3)
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Last edited by prakharsingh95 (2014-10-03 22:02:34)

Kopkins wrote:
I can't seem to connect to the wiki right now to dig around some more, but try setting packet fragmentation for your wireless interface to something higher. By default it's off.
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[<ffffffff88405e77>] :ndiswrapper:win2lin2+0xe/0x11
[<ffffffff883fa330>] :ndiswrapper:IoAcquireCancelSpinLock+0x10/0x20
[<ffffffff883fae47>] :ndiswrapper:IofCompleteRequest+0x87/0x180
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[<ffffffff88400c08>] :ndiswrapper:mp_init+0xa8/0x1e0
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[<ffffffff883fb930>] :ndiswrapper:IoSyncForwardIrp+0x90/0xd0
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[<ffffffff883fb1db>] :ndiswrapper:IoInitializeIrp+0x3b/0x70
[<ffffffff88405e77>] :ndiswrapper:win2lin2+0xe/0x11
[<ffffffff883fa5f4>] :ndiswrapper:IofCallDriver+0x34/0xc0
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[<ffffffff883fa5f4>] :ndiswrapper:IofCallDriver+0x34/0xc0
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lenni wrote:
When I used to use ndiswrapper, just downloading one of the generic INF files didn't do the trick for me. I had to go to my manufacturer's homepage and download it there extract the drivers from the exe and use them in order to get my card work reliably.
Also, have you used a 64 bit driver? This guy reckons you need it:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ost2952703
I guess I solved it. I have been using the 64-bit driver, but have tried the 32-bit driver from hp diver site too. For some reason ndiswrapper seems to install a driver named "ndiswrapper" with this 32-bit driver, which is why it didn't work. So my solution was:
1) Get the 32-bit driver from hp.com
2) rmmod ndiswrapper
3) remove all installed ndiswrapper drivers: ndiswrapper -r <drivername>
4) installed the 32-bit driver: ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
5) ndiswrapper -l gave me:
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4312) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
ndiswrapper : invalid driver!
6) Got rid of the weird ndiswrapper driver inside ndiswrapper: ndiswrapper -r ndiswrapper
7) modprobe ndiswrapper
Rebooted a couple of times and it seems to work ok.
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I've found a solution for this problem (at LinLap, see pierre comment on Feb-24-2012) and it worked for my Linux Mint installation. On " /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf" I didn't have the "blacklist b43" line, it was only on a previous comment line, but I commented the next line (it was similar) and added the same blacklist at end of file.
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blacklist b43
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well, if that is the case, why then is this seen by 10.4.9 as being fully compatible and reported as and Airport Extreme card?
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