On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Paul Heinlein wrote: > 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. Here's a follow-on of an old thread... Joshua and I have been comparing notes. We've got NICs with PCI IDs of 8086:1096 (known variously as 82563EB or 80003ES2LAN, depending on whose info you use). In my case, the problems have cleared up with the release of CentOS 4.5 and the 2.6.9-55 kernel, which uses version 7.2.7 of the e1000 driver. By way of comparison, the 2.6.9-42.0.10.EL kernel used 7.0.33. He hasn't been as lucky. I mentioned to him the procedure I used under previous kernels, and will repeat it here in case anyone else is seeing similar symptoms: * Head to the Intel PRO/10/100/1000/10GbE Drivers project and grab the latest release for e1000 (e.g., e1000-7.5.5.1.tar.gz). -> http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000 * Identify the uname-ish version of the kernel for which you wish to build the module (e.g., 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp). * Unpack the tarball, and go to the src/ subdirectory. * make BUILD_KERNEL=3D2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp install (using the correct target kernel's version, of course). -- Paul Heinlein <> heinlein at madboa.com <> http://www.madboa.com/