[CentOS] e1000 nic problem

[Benjamin Smith]

Long ago, I managed a bunch of Dell PowerEdge 1U systems running Fedora Core 
1. The built-in driver worked for a while, but died after a few hours of 
heavy burn-in. It was a consistent failure that was fixed by downloading and 
compiling the driver from Intel (as linked to from within the Dell support 
boards) 

Once that was done, it worked a champ - but then I had to recompile the driver 
every time a kernel update came out. Big pain, glad I don't work there 
anymore. 

-Ben 

On Sunday 25 June 2006 05:49, Geert Batsleer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been experiencing occassional network time-outs with the Intel Gigabit
> nic's (e1000) in Poweredge systems.
> 
> I'm not sure if it's a hard or software problem but it occurs on different
> systems with Centos 4.2 and 4.3 and was wondering if there' s a  workaround
> available like compiling an updated e1000 module  or something.
> 
> kind regards,
> 
> Geert
> 
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