What version of the e1000 driver are you trying to use? Also, which kernel? Older versions of the e1000 driver supported all of the PCI/PCI-X devices and some older PCIe devices. The newer version of e1000 only support the PCI/PCI-X devices. The e1000e driver only supports PCIe devices.
Cheers, John ----------------------------------------------------------- "...that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.", B. Obama, 2009 >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Markle [mailto:[email protected]] >Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 1:33 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [E1000-devel] When to use e1000 vs. e1000e? > >It's not clear to me when one uses the e1000 driver vs. the e1000e >one. I had a machine with PICe Ethernet NICs and it looked like it >required the e1000e driver. I had hoped to use the same e1000e driver >for another system with with a PCI NIC and a PCI-X NIC and it didn't >seem to select that driver for those NICs, even when I specifically >set via modprobe.conf for that e1000e driver to be used. > >Which e1000* drivers are to be used in which case? > >Thanks in advance. > >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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
