[CentOS] Intel 82599 driver?

Wed Apr 6 16:21:10 UTC 2011
James Pearson <james-p at moving-picture.com>

Lars Hecking wrote:
>  Which version of the ixgbe driver is included in 5.6? I went through all the
>  RHEL5 release notes, but they only ever state that the driver was updated,
>  not which devices was added.
> 
>  This device is not supported up to CentOS 5.5 (2.0.44-k2), but the latest
>  driver from the Intel web site works fine (3.2.10).
> 
> 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 151c (rev 01)
> 
> 05:00.0 0200: 8086:151c (rev 01)

Looking at the 5.6 kernel source (2.6.18-238), the file 
drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h has the line:

#define IXGBE_DEV_ID_82599_T3_LOM        0x151C

which part of the patch:

linux-2.6-net-ixgbe-update-to-upstream-version-2-0-84-k2.patch

James Pearson