[CentOS] Intel 3000 and 5000 chipsets?

[William Dinkel]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 5:19 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 at 3:16pm, Alfred von Campe wrote
>
>> On Feb 9, 2007, at 14:59, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
>>
>>> The one caveat was that while the stock e1000 driver will  
>>> somewhat work with the onboard NICs, it'll randomly decide to  
>>> stop moving packets about. An upgrade to the most recent driver  
>>> from Intel (7.3.20) fixed that.
>>
>> I apologize for hijacking this thread, but I've been meaning to  
>> ask this question for a while now.  I suspect that the e1000  
>> driver in CentOS 4.4 is the culprit for at least some of the  
>> strange hangs I have been seeing.  What is the recommended way to  
>> install the latest e1000 driver on a CentOS system?
>
> Well, I don't know about recommended, but what I do is:
>
> o Download driver from intel.com
> o unpack and compile (a simple make in the src/ directory works)
> o cd /lib/modules/2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/
> o mv e1000.ko e1000.inst
> o cp /path/to/newly/compiled/e1000.ko .
> o depmod -a
> o reboot
>
> I'm sure someone will now post a far more elegant solution.

Actually, the e1000 driver tarballs include spec files that will  
create some very clean RPMs.  Just run "rpmbuild -tb <driver  
tarball>", install the freshly produced RPM, and it should handle all  
of the above steps for you.

>
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University
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