Re: Help with Intel Pro/1000 GT NIC

Thanks for the suggestion.

Based on what I saw with the one machine I installed U6 on, I may be able to 
make it work with  the KVMs. Besides, I don't really want to make my own 
kernel, as I would be locked into it without kernel RPM updates.

Now to decide whether updating by yum will give me what I need, or to 
install fresh on the machines I can rebuild. Some of these won't be upgraded 
due to the OS I run on them like RH 7.3 with proprietary software.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bogdan Costescu" <Bogdan.Costescu-hEciA7+sKtudPOQpRHQ53DeJuz7u0hKX@public.gmane.org>
To: "Steve Campbell" <campbell-TtXmYh9KqR1Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Tao-discuss] Help with Intel Pro/1000 GT NIC


> On Thu, 3 Nov 2005, Steve Campbell wrote:
>
>> My preference would be to update to 6, but this may break some
>> things and I fear doing this on production servers. Can anyone tell
>> me what I might need to do to get the same NIC support that Update 6
>> has using Update 2?
>
> You could try to take the e1000 source code from U6 and put it in the
> U2 kernel, then recompile. Or simply recompile the U6 driver against
> the U2 kernel, although this might turn more difficult than the
> first...
>
> Due to the other changes (including security related) I would suggest
> trying to get U6 to play nice with your KVM as the best solution.
>
> -- 
> Bogdan Costescu
>
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