Re: [Linux 2.4.32] SATA ICH5/PIIX and Combined mode

[Jesse Brandeburg]

On 12/21/05, Paul Rolland <rol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, the other way around is to upgrade e1000 driver in the 2.4.21EL-smp,
> as the machine I'm using is quite new, and RHES3 kernel can't find the
> Ethernet device, so the machine has no network.
> My first idea was to consider this as an opportunity to upgrade to the
> latest 2.4.x kernel, but reading you, this looks like a bad idea...
> 2.6.x would be better ?

the latest e1000-6.3.9 driver from http://sf.net/projects/e1000 should
work fine with that original 2.4 kernel and will definitely support
your new network hardware.

let us know how that goes
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