On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Amnon Cohen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi All,
> I have run into a problem doing koan installs of SL6.2 on machines with
> onboard igb nics.
> The : 3.0.6-k version of the igb dirver intermittently drops the connection,
> causing the koan installation to fail.
>
> This problem was fixed in the 3.0.22 version of the igb driver.
>
> Unfortunately, I can't upgrade to SL6.4 (long story).
> So my plan is to replace the igb.ko.gz in images/pxeboot/initrd.img
> with a 3.0.22 version.
>
> My question is how to build a new igb driver which matches the installer
> kernel in images/pxeboot/vmlinuz
> Which kernel source should I use?
> Where is the .config file?
>
> Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this question. I have searched the
> FAQs and HOWTOs on www.sceintificlinux.org
> but not found anything relevant.
>
> Thanks in advance for any pointers!
>
>     Amnon

An updated version of kmod-igb (version 4.2.16) has been released by ELRepo:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2013-June/001794.html

Perhaps that might help?

Akemi