Newer e1000 driver disk (Red Hat Linux 9) needed

Jason Dixon jason at dixongroup.net
Fri Feb 13 22:06:13 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 14:46, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 01:18:20PM -0500, Jason Dixon wrote:

> > HP provides drivers for the e1000 on their linux driver pages.  However,
> > they only have RHEL 3.0/2.1 and RHL up to 8.0 in their support matrix. 
> > You might be able to get it working with the e1000 driver for 8.0 or
> > RHEL 3.0.
> 
> The issue is that you need a driver compiled with the exact BOOT
> kernel of RHL 9, AFAIK, so I assumed this won't work.

HP's drivers come in src.rpm as well, so they can be recompiled on
non-supported errata.  Sorry I didn't mention it;  I figured you'd at
least try and look.  ;-)

> I've now solved it by adding some legacy network card for install only
> (after installing - with updates merged - it will recognize the newer
> Intel cards anyway).  But a driver disk howto would be useful anyway,
> also for Fedora ;).

Good.

-- 
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net





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