[CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

Thu Apr 7 09:50:26 UTC 2011
Peter Kjellström <cap at nsc.liu.se>

On Wednesday, April 06, 2011 07:07:59 pm Lars Hecking wrote:
> > This does not mean it's not supported it's just not in the pci-id
> > database.
> > 
> > You could try to update just the pci-db with:
> >  # update-pciids
> 
>  Cool!
> 
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82599EB 10 Gigabit TN
> Network Connection (rev 01)
> 
> > We've used 82599 on the normal 5.5 kernel no problems (2.0.44-k2). With
> > the 5.6 kernel (-238) you get: 2.0.84-k2
> 
>  Does not seem to work with our variant. CentOS driver:
> 
> ixgbe: Intel(R) 10 Gigabit PCI Express Network Driver - version 2.0.44-k2
> ixgbe: Copyright (c) 1999-2010 Intel Corporation.

There are more than one NIC-model with 82599EB and evidently not all work with 
the CentOS driver. What we're using successfully is X520-DA2:

 Intel Corporation 82599EB 10-Gigabit Network Connection (rev 01)

What do you have?

/Peter
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