Re: Intel GIG-E driver

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, Niall  O Broin wrote:

> I recently reached for a BBC to solve a problem on a Dell PE 1600. This
> box has Intel GIG-E and unfortunately the BBC has no driver.
>
> A little research revealed that the question has been asked before and
> the answer is that it'll have to wait for a BBC with a later kernel. So
> the question now is - is putting a later kernel into a BBC all that big
> a deal ? I'm perfectly willing to rebuild my development environment to
> have a look at this, but if there are any already known showstoppers,
> I'd like to know and save my time.

Hi Niall

The e1000 driver is part of the HEAD builds.  Can you pull one of these
images down and try it on for size?  You'll need to load the module
manually, otherwise they should work fine for you.

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