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Re: Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Alan Bartlett <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 5 Apr 2011 22:54:31 +0100
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On 5 April 2011 19:11, Chris Tooley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I am wondering whether the Intel 82579 Gbit LAN chipsets are supported
> natively by any packages or the kernel, or whether I have to install a newer
> driver?

Hi Chris,

Assuming you currently don't have the hardware available to run
/sbin/lspci -n, thus obtaining the Vendor:Device ID Pairing (the
device fingerprint) for the NIC, I can only say that the e1000e driver
should support that device.

If the distro version of the driver proves to be lacking, then (as
Mark has already mentioned) the ELRepo Project has the latest version
available as the kmod-e1000e package [1].

Regards,
Alan.

[1] http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-e1000e

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