On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Alexander Dalloz ad+lists@uni-x.org wrote:
Am 16.02.2011 18:09, schrieb Akemi Yagi:
But if you'd like more info or questions regarding ELRepo's drivers, you will need to ask on the ELRepo mailing list.
Akemi
I know you are part of the ELrepo team and saw you contributing to a bugzilla ticket, asking for updating the e1000e kernel module with recent Intel sources. I understand the point the Red Hat team is making, when they say, they will only update when the Intel version found their way into Linus's vanilla kernel tree.
For people wondering which bugzilla report you are referencing:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632650
Though I am planning to open an upstream ticket because the 2 Intel 82574L NICs are not usable with plain RHEL 6, but they are using the ELrepo module. Unfortunately I was not able to trace and dump much useful information to fill in the ticket besides to note that simply no network traffic is going through the NICs with the RHEL 6 kernel module.
By all means, try filing a support request. Unless the RHEL-6 kernel gets the updated driver, CentOS-6 would not. I suppose (hope) you can send in a request without having to provide all technical details. Just mention the "fact" that the driver in the RHEL-6 kernel does not work while a newer version from ELRepo works and see how they handle the case.
Glad there is the ELrepo! :)
Always good to hear a success story like this. [But once again, it's best mentioned on the ELRepo ML]
Akemi