On Thu, 18 Oct 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
>> Connie,
>> 
>> On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.

It's likely, since there are so many different models of these. I 
consistently get the problem on Dell Poweredge 1850 Systems, with this 
lspci -n output for the NIC: 06:07.0 0200: 8086:1076 (rev 05)

> We installed -52 on a Dell with e1000 and it worked.  Just would like to put

Are you sure you would have noticed if the NIC had taken some 2 minutes to 
actually work after being brought up during boot?

- Stephan

> as much info as we know about this in the README.
>
> -connie
> >
>> - Stephan
>> 
>>> -connie sieh
>>> On Fri, 12 Oct 2007, Connie Sieh wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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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