I am a newby at e1000 building so please bear with me... I recently downloaded, built and installed the e1000 8.0.6 version on my i386 fc4 machine. When the dust cleared here's how things looked:
[r...@dd42 ~]# ethtool -i eth0 driver: e1000 version: 8.0.6-NAPI firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:01:01.0 [r...@dd42 ~]# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000 total 4144 -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 2110478 Mar 5 16:35 e1000.ko -rw-r--r-- 2 root root 2110478 Mar 5 16:35 e1000.ko.new [r...@dd42 ~]# lsmod | grep e1000 e1000 174848 0 What concerned me and the reason for this inquiry is that the older e1000 version had a MUCH smaller e1000.ko file, leading me to wonder if I had done something wrong here. [r...@dd43 ~]# ethtool -i eth0 driver: e1000 version: 7.0.33-k2-NAPI firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:01:01.0 [r...@dd43 ~]# ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.17-1.2142_FC4smp/kernel/drivers/net/e1000 total 148 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 140204 Jul 11 2006 e1000.ko [r...@dd43 ~]# lsmod | grep e1000 e1000 118073 0 I do see that the module sizes as shown by lsmod are not far apart. Is the k2 in the old driver name as shown by ethtool perhaps indicative of some kind of build option? Any thoughts would be welcome. Fwiw the new e1000 driver does seem to be working... Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
