[CentOS] kmod-e1000e and Intel Network Card

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Wed Feb 16 19:28:19 UTC 2011


On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists at uni-x.org> wrote:
> Am 16.02.2011 18:09, schrieb Akemi Yagi:

>> But if you'd like more info or questions regarding ELRepo's drivers,
>> you will need to ask on the ELRepo mailing list.
>>
>> Akemi

> I know you are part of the ELrepo team and saw you contributing to a
> bugzilla ticket, asking for updating the e1000e kernel module with
> recent Intel sources. I understand the point the Red Hat team is making,
> when they say, they will only update when the Intel version found their
> way into Linus's vanilla kernel tree.

For people wondering which bugzilla report you are referencing:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632650

> Though I am planning to open an upstream ticket because the 2 Intel
> 82574L NICs are not usable with plain RHEL 6, but they are using the
> ELrepo module. Unfortunately I was not able to trace and dump much
> useful information to fill in the ticket besides to note that simply no
> network traffic is going through the NICs with the RHEL 6 kernel module.

By all means, try filing a support request. Unless the RHEL-6 kernel
gets the updated driver, CentOS-6 would not. I suppose (hope) you can
send in a request without having to provide all technical details.
Just mention the "fact" that the driver in the RHEL-6 kernel does not
work while a newer version from ELRepo works and see how they handle
the case.

> Glad there is the ELrepo! :)

Always good to hear a success story like this. [But once again, it's
best mentioned on the ELRepo ML]

Akemi



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