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