Matt Hyclak wrote: >On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 04:39:48PM +0200, Regis Gras enlightened us: > > >>I tried to compile CVS with the new driver e1000 for Dell Optiplex 755 >> >>I tried to use: e1000-7.6.15.4.tar.gz and e1000-7.6.15.5.tar.gz >> >>The compilation is OK, but the network connection does'nt work >>The messages are: >> >>*** Now that we have loaded the modules (maybe) let's try DHCP ... >>*** Trying DHCP on eth0 >>udhcpc (v1.9.1) started >>Sending Discover >>:eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is up 100 Mbps Full Duplex Flow >>Control: RX/TX >>:eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO >> >>and now, the computer freezes. >>I am using: >>linux-2.6.24.4 glibc-2.3.6 perl-5.8.8 samba-3.0.20 >>e1000-7.6.15.5.tar.gz >> >> >> > >I just used linux-2.6.24.3 and added the e1000e driver in the kernel config >(add CONFIG_E1000E=m to misc/linux-config) and it worked fine on my Optiplex >755's. No need to compile a separate kernel. > > > Could you explain me what you excactly do ? You added the e1000e in the kernel config .... where did you find the e1000e ? In e1000-7.6.15.5.tar.gz ? You do'nt compile the unattended distribution ? (cd .../unattended/linuxboot; make download; make tftpboot ....)
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