Upgrade BCM5709 Firmware / Drivers

[BashedRoot]

Can someone please help me figure out how to upgrade the drivers and firmware for my Dell R610 BCM5709 NIC?

I'm baffled why it's so confusing on Dell's site.

#lspci -nnk

[root@server ~]# lspci -v | grep Ethernet -A 1
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
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01:00.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Inc. and subsidiaries NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 20)
        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)
        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)
        Subsystem: Dell PowerEdge R610 BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33

[root@server ~]# ethtool -i em1
driver: bnx2
version: 2.2.6
firmware-version: 08.07.26 bc 7.10.0 NCSI 2.0.13
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:01:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: yes
supports-register-dump: yes
supports-priv-flags: no

I'm running Centos 7 on the server.

 

[CyklonDX]

good luck, there no updates for this nic.
Its a dead end. Better get intel i350

(its also not really supported by newer versions of rhel 8+ / alma, or windows 2019+ -- expect issues)

 

[SadoKitten]

There is updates ,