RH7.2 and GigE
Matthew J. Brodeur
mbrodeur at NextTime.com
Fri May 2 15:25:38 EDT 2003
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On Fri, 2 May 2003 pll at lanminds.com wrote:
> >> Can someone confirm one way or another whether or not a stock RH7.2
> >> install would support Gigabit ethernet out of the box?
> >
> >Which NIC, anyways?
>
> Intel or Broadcom.
I think Broadcom is included, but I don't recall Intel's e1000 driver
being included until later releases (7.3 maybe?). It's definitely in the
latest 7.3 errata kernel (2.4.18-27.7.x).
Even if the stock 7.2 kernel has a driver I wouldn't use it. Earlier
versions of the Pro/1000 drivers had rather nasty issues. See here for
details:
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~gray/gig-over-copper/gig-over-copper.html
Either get a new driver from Intel, or update the kernel to a newer
errata release. I haven't touched my e1000s in months, but I've read that
there have been great improvements.
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Matthew J. Brodeur RHCE, GSEC
MBrodeur at NextTime.com http://www.NextTime.com
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