e1000 in rawhide kernel

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Feb 3 03:47:18 UTC 2006


On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 03:12:22PM +1300, Michael J Knox wrote:
 > On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 20:34 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 01:08:57PM +1300, Michael J Knox wrote:
 > >  > Hi all, 
 > >  > 
 > >  > I am looking at a problem with the e1000 driver in rawhide (will the
 > >  > installed FC5t2 kernel). 
 > >  > 
 > >  > I have a 82573E onboard NIC that refuses to obtain a DHCP IP. If its
 > >  > statically asigned, I am ok. 
 > >  > 
 > >  > lspic output:
 > >  > 
 > >  > 03:00.0 Ethernet Controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet
 > >  > Controller (Copper) (rev 0.3)
 > >  > 
 > >  > The e1000 kernel module is loaded, ifconfig shows that eth0 was brought
 > >  > up.
 > >  > 
 > >  > dmesg shows:
 > >  > 
 > >  > e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
 > >  > e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is up 100Mbps Full Duplex. 
 > > 
 > > There have been a ton of e1000 changes since the test2 kernel,
 > > please try and reproduce with the latest rawhide kernel, and if it's
 > > still a problem, file a bug in bugzilla.
 > > 
 > > 		Dave
 > > 
 > 
 > Ok, tried that, no change. 
 > 
 > Bug report:
 > 
 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=179805
 > 
 > One interesting note, the current rawhide kernel (2.6.15-1.1884_FC5)
 > broke e100, so I am filing a bug for that too. 

kernel-2.6.15-1.1895_FC5 is todays kernel.
I guess yum picked up a stale mirror ?
There's also an even higher rev which will be tomorrows build
at http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/devel/

		Dave





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