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 ,

 

[john389]

For anyone else running into the issue and wanting to upgrade the BCM5709 NIC on systems where you can't do it via iDrac, i.e. for me it was a Dell R630.

Firmware upgrade file found via searching

Support for PowerEdge R210 | Drivers & Downloads | Dell US

for firmware of Qlogic/Broadcom NetXtreme II products. The BCM5709 was renamed from Broadcom to Qlogic. Find the file:

Network_Firmware_35RF5_WN64_7.12.19.EXE

Extract it using "unzip".

Boot Windows 10, get the contents of the unzipped folder (you might have to copy the contents of the "payload" folder into the same directory as spsetup.exe, I don't remember if it was necessary) and run spsetup.exe . Follow the instructions.