Re: [E1000-devel] 64bit e1000 problems with Intel 82541PI

[Stack S. <i.a...@gm...>]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Jeff Kirsher
<jef...@in...>wrote:

> The kernel version of e1000 is what you should be using if you have a
> kernel version 2.6.28 or newer (since 2.6.29 just got released).
>
> We keep the stand-alone driver on sourceforge for those users using
> older kernels but need a newer version of the e1000 driver, and right
> now, the kernel e1000 driver contains fixes and updates that we need
> to implement in the stand-alone driver.
>
> So in short, use the in-kernel e1000 for newer kernels.
>

Thanks Jeff for the response.

I just finished the compile for 2.6.29 (the latest from kernel.org [1] using
the Debian config file from the 2.6.28 kernel in Debian experimental
branch). Same problem; I get a kernel oops when I plug in the network cable.

Here is the kerneloops as my syslog sees it [1].

I submitted the kerneloops to kerneloops.org but I can't find it on there
yet. Maybe it takes it a while?

Not sure if this is relevant or not (maybe it is expected), but the driver
version reverted.
$ ethtool -i eth1
driver: e1000
version: 7.3.21-k3-NAPI
firmware-version: N/A
bus-info: 0000:04:09.0

Any other suggestions for me to try or do?

Thanks!
~Stack~


[1] http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.29.tar.bz2
[2] http://pastebin.com/m6b40449c