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@xxxxxxxxxx <> http://www.madboa.com/
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
