Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets
Hello all, I am wondering whether the Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets are supported natively by any packages or the kernel, or whether I have to install a newer driver? Thanks, ~Chris Tooley
Re: Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets
Chris Tooley wrote: Hello all, I am wondering whether the Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets are supported natively by any packages or the kernel, or whether I have to install a newer driver? Thanks, ~Chris Tooley I try to use Intel NICs as often as possible. If the standard SL kernel doesn't support it, ELRepo (http://elrepo.org/) typically has the latest driver ready to drop in without hassle. Cheers, Mark -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
Re: Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets
On 5 April 2011 19:11, Chris Tooley ctoo...@uvic.ca wrote: I am wondering whether the Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets are supported natively by any packages or the kernel, or whether I have to install a newer driver? Hi Chris, Assuming you currently don't have the hardware available to run /sbin/lspci -n, thus obtaining the Vendor:Device ID Pairing (the device fingerprint) for the NIC, I can only say that the e1000e driver should support that device. If the distro version of the driver proves to be lacking, then (as Mark has already mentioned) the ELRepo Project has the latest version available as the kmod-e1000e package [1]. Regards, Alan. [1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-e1000e
