[CentOS] core 2 duo motherboards and centos 4

Mon Jan 29 16:47:29 UTC 2007
Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>

On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:

> That being said, I *did* have a good time with the network chips in 
> my new Xeon 5160 cluster nodes.  Those are on Supermicro X7DVL-E 
> boards with Intel 82563EB network controllers.  The driver in CentOS 
> 4.3 didn't recognize the NICs at all, and the one in 4.4 worked 
> enough to install 'em but would intermittently decide to stop 
> passing traffic (on eth1, at least). Installing the latest driver 
> from intel.com (7.3.20) fixed 'em up.

Same thing here using Xeon 5130s and the 80003ES2LAN adapters. Nearly 
lost some hair over that one.

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