Re: Intel PRO/100 NIC trouble when memory is more than 2GB with RedHat7.1beta

>>>>> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:56:54 +0900 (JST), "Murakami Hiroshi" <[email protected]> said:

  Murakami> The trouble is resolved: I have obtained from intel site
  Murakami> the follwing files: e100-2.1.15.tar.gz e1000-4.3.15.tar.gz
  Murakami> These are the source codes for both IA-32 and IA-64 Linux
  Murakami> to support the loadable modules for intel PRO/100 and
  Murakami> PRO/1000 NICs.

  Murakami> After the redhat7.1beta kernal source packages is istalled
  Murakami> from the second CD-ROM, untar these files at any place and
  Murakami> make under the directory src of them and make install,
  Murakami> change the /etc/modules.conf file so that eth0 is from
  Murakami> eepro100 to e100 or e1000 accordingly. (I checked both
  Murakami> kind of cards) I verified that with this new loadable
  Murakami> module drivers, the network trouble has been disappeared
  Murakami> and repetive download and upload of large files does not
  Murakami> make the system sick now.  Thank you.

It's good that things are working for you now, however, please be
aware that redhat 7.1 is ancient and many important bugs have been
fixed since then.  I'd really recommend upgrading to something more
recent.

	--david