[Bug 1182878] Re: i210/i217 unsupported by igb / e1000e driver in precise

2013-06-14 Thread Markus Schade
closing this bug as invalid myself, as the driver support is included in 12.04.2 with the HWE-Stack ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launch

[Bug 1182878] Re: i210/i217 unsupported by igb / e1000e driver in precise

2013-06-04 Thread Markus Schade
Hello Joseph, so the official/canonical way to get support for new hardware is to install any of the lts-backports kernel because drivers do not get backported into the lts kernel itself, correct? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 1182878] Re: i210/i217 unsupported by igb / e1000e driver in precise

2013-05-30 Thread Joseph Salisbury
If support for the i210/i217 NIC's landed in 3.5, they should be supported with the 12.04.2 or newer Precise point releases since those will ship with a newer kernel by default, ie. 12.04.2==Quantal Kernel, 12.04.3 == Raring Kernel, 12.04.4 == Saucy Kernel. There is some info avaiable at: https://

Re: [Bug 1182878] Re: i210/i217 unsupported by igb / e1000e driver in precise

2013-05-25 Thread Markus Schade
Hi Joseph, Initial support was added mostly upstream kernel 3.5 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fbe4526e5aafc9ffa5d85fa4749a7c5b22af6b2 http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb?id=f96a8a0b78548c

[Bug 1182878] Re: i210/i217 unsupported by igb / e1000e driver in precise

2013-05-23 Thread Joseph Salisbury
No need to test the upstream kernel as requested in comment #2. It sounds like there is already a fix in 3.5 and newer kernels. Do you happen to know the SHA1 for the fix? If not, I can do some searches. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is su

[Bug 1182878] Re: i210/i217 unsupported by igb / e1000e driver in precise

2013-05-23 Thread Joseph Salisbury
Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.10 kernel[0]. If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'. If the mainline kernel does not fix