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 > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > -- "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - XEROX PARC slogan, circa 1978