On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Connie,
>
> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
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>> Stephan,
>>
>>  I would like to put this tweek rpm in the cd iso images contrib area.
>> Is it available?
>
> sorry for being a bit unresponsive these days. Please find it in
> http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~wiesand/SL/e1000/
>
> To rebuild, make sure you have the binary kernel rpms for -47.0.1 in SOURCES. 
> Yes, it's a blunt hack...

Do you know if there are specific models of the e1000 that need this 
change.  We installed -52 on a Dell with e1000 and it worked.  Just would 
like to put as much info as we know about this in the README.

-connie
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> - Stephan
>
>> -connie sieh
>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
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>>> Stephan,
>>> 
>>> Yes please provide the tweek rpm and it will put it in contrib.
>>> 
>>> Thanks
>>> 
>>> -connie sieh
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>> 
>>>> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> The x86_64 version is now available for testing.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Same changes were made as in i386.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Expect to release tomorrow(Friday).
>>>>> 
>>>>> -Connie Sieh
>>>>> -Troy Dawson
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please test.  This will be released on Friday unless we hear from you 
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> there are problems.
>>>> 
>>>> Looks ok, except that e1000 is definitely broken on Dell 8G Servers. The
>>>> NICs on those worked fine all the way since at least 3.0.4 - but 
>>>> something
>>>> in -50.EL's e100 driver breaks them.
>>>> 
>>>> No problems under the install kernel though, hence this is not a real
>>>> problem for me (I simply overwrite the module with the one from -47.0.1 
>>>> in %post - tweek RPM available if anyone wants it). It could be for 
>>>> others though.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for doing 309!
>>>> 
>>>> - Stephan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
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