Thanks for the quick reply!

But unfortunately the kernels do not match....

 [root@mybox build]# rpm -ivh /tmp/kmod-igb-4.2.16-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
warning: /tmp/kmod-igb-4.2.16-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1
Signature, key ID baadae52: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
kernel(kmem_cache_alloc_trace) = 0x2044fa9e is needed by
kmod-igb-4.2.16-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
kernel(set_ethtool_ops_ext) = 0xd2a680c8 is needed by
kmod-igb-4.2.16-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64
[root@mybox build]# rpm -ivh /tmp/kmod-igb-4.2.16-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
--nodeps
warning: /tmp/kmod-igb-4.2.16-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1
Signature, key ID baadae52: NOKEY
Preparing...                ###########################################
[100%]
   1:kmod-igb               ###########################################
[100%]
Working. This may take some time ...
Done.

[root@mybox build]# insmod
/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra/igb/igb.ko
insmod: error inserting
'/lib/modules/2.6.32-358.el6.x86_64/extra/igb/igb.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in
module

[root@mybox build]# dmesg -c
igb: Unknown symbol dca_remove_requester
igb: Unknown symbol i2c_bit_add_bus
igb: Unknown symbol kmem_cache_alloc_trace
igb: Unknown symbol dca_add_requester
igb: Unknown symbol set_ethtool_ops_ext
igb: Unknown symbol dca_unregister_notify
igb: Unknown symbol dca_register_notify
igb: Unknown symbol dca3_get_tag



On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Akemi Yagi <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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
>