Broadcom's NetXtreme II 5709 on Ubuntu 16.10 4.10 kernel fails w/ code model kernel does not support PIC mode

Is there a way to work with the patch suggested here to get this to work? I downloaded the latest drivers from QLogic (who bought Broadcomm). Their support reply was:

As of April 13, 2015 we must refer all requests for downloads back to the vendor who supplied the product. All of these products were supplied by another vendor, i.e. Dell, HP, IBM, etc.

We are sorry, but the links we previously provided as NetXtreme II are no longer hosted on the QLogic website.

Here's the error from running make:

make -C bnx2/src  KVER=4.8.0-46-generic PREFIX=
make[1]: Entering directory '/home/me/Desktop/linux-7.10.14/linux-7.10.14/Server/Linux/Driver/netxtreme2-7.10.14/bnx2-2.710.10/src'
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I/lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/build/include  -DHAVE_GFP -DOLD_NETIF -mno-red-zone -mcmodel=kernel -pipe -finline-limit=2000 -O2   -c -o bnx2.o bnx2.c
bnx2.c:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode
 /* bnx2.c: Broadcom NX2 network driver.

<builtin>: recipe for target 'bnx2.o' failed
make[1]: *** [bnx2.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/me/Desktop/linux-7.10.14/linux-7.10.14/Server/Linux/Driver/netxtreme2-7.10.14/bnx2-2.710.10/src'
Makefile:60: recipe for target 'l2build' failed
make: *** [l2build] Error 2

I've tried using GCC 4.7 and 4.8 as suggested here but keep running into pathing errors, i.e., No such file or directory such as this:

/lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/build/include/linux/sched.h: At top level:
/lib/modules/4.8.0-46-generic/build/include/linux/sched.h:63:35: fatal error: asm-generic/processor.h: No such file or directory
 #include <asm-generic/processor.h>