On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:50:34AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > dann frazier wrote: > >>> 95b866d e1000e: Fix incorrect debug warning > >>> [...] > >>> a5136e2 e1000e: allow VLAN devices to use TSO and TCP CSUM offload > >>> > >>> I've put these individual changes in > >>> http://womble.decadent.org.uk/tmp/e1000e-patches/ so you don't need to > >>> use git to generate them. > > Hi, > > I started to try yesterday, and finished today, and I'm very surprised > here. I just used the package linux-source-2.6.26 from Lenny, unpacked > the resulting archive in /usr/src, did make-kpkg, dpkg -i of the > resulting image, mkinitrdfs, edited my grub menu.lst and rebooted. The I > was expecting my e1000e to not work at all. But it did work, without > applying any patch. > > The issue here is NOT my laptop (in fact, I don't care my laptop, I run > the newest kernel 2.6.30 on it). I want to have the Debian kernel to > work on the core i7 boards of Supermicro, the X8STi-3F, that has 2 > e1000e boards. Last time my employee Felix in Singapore tried the Debian > installer CD in our hardware supplier place in Singapore, it did NOT > recognize the network board. > > So I'm wondering, did somebody applied some patches for e1000e between > the release of Lenny 5.01? Or maybe, the e1000e on the X8STi-3F is > different from the one of my Thinkpad t500? Is there even different > versions of the board at Intel? > > I'd appreciate some pointers here. It's really so important for our > business to have this issue solved, and I guess that I'm not the only > one that desperately need to run the Debian Xen kernel with e1000e > (running custom made Xen kernels is not an option as we have too many > servers in production).
Can you provide the bootlog of your machine when booting 1) the debian kernel and 2) when booting your custom kernel? -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
