[NTLUG:Discuss] Fedora on Dell PowerEdge 700 does not find NIC

[Neil Aggarwal]

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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