[CentOS] Intel 3000 and 5000 chipsets?

William Dinkel wdinkel at teamhpc.com
Sat Feb 10 01:26:32 UTC 2007


On Feb 9, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Alfred von Campe wrote:

> On Feb 9, 2007, at 19:04, William Dinkel wrote:
>
>> Thankfully the e1000 RPM makes a backup of any existing e1000.ko  
>> files, and will return to the original module upon removal of the  
>> e1000 RPM.  Just make sure you remove the e1000 RPM before you  
>> start playing with the kernel RPMs and things should be fine.   
>> Rebuilding e1000 for a different kernel is as easy as running  
>> rpmbuild again.
>
> Excellent, thanks for the information.  I will definitely try this  
> out next week.  One follow up question.  How do you specify what  
> kernel version you want to build against/install into when  
> executing the rpmbuild?  I assume that the default is the running  
> kernel?

It should build modules for all subversions of the currently running  
kernel (up, smp, hugemem, etc.).  Unfortunately, I don't see a  
provision in the spec file for passing a different kernel version to  
rpmbuild on the command line.

William Dinkel
Chief Technology Officer
Team HPC
http://www.teamhpc.com
wdinkel at teamhpc.com
1-866-TEAMHPC



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