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
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>-----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
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