[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora on Dell PowerEdge 700 does not find NIC
Neil Aggarwal
neil at JAMMConsulting.com
Sat Apr 10 23:52:14 CDT 2004
Justin:
Thanks for the build. I appreciate it.
Thanks,
Neil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Justin M. Forbes
> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 11:26 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora on Dell PowerEdge 700
> does not find NIC
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 11:37:56AM -0500, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> >
> > I appreciate your following up on this.
> >
>
> After talking with Dave, there are no errata planned which
> would rebase the
> FC1 kernel to a newer upstream release (considering the amount of work
> required for nptl and 0(1) scheduler on AMD64, this is not a
> bad thing).
> While generally bug fixes have gotten backported for errata release
> kernels, drivers such as e1000 typically do not. As a result, I have
> included an SRPM that can be rebuilt on Fedora systems to
> provide support
> for your nic. To build the RPM for your kernel please use
> 'CC=gcc32 rpmbuild
> --rebuild e1000-5.2.39-1.src.rpm' Please keep this SRPM
> around as you will
> need to rebuild any time that a new kernel is installed.
> Once built you
> can install with rpm -ivh
> You can download the SRPM from:
> http://www.linuxtx.org/e1000-5.2.39-1.src.rpm
>
> For Fedora Core 2, none of this should be necessary.
>
> Justin M. Forbes
>
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