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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos William Dinkel Chief Technology Officer Team HPC http://www.teamhpc.com wdinkel at teamhpc.com 1-866-TEAMHPC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070209/7049d634/attachment-0005.html>