Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 8/18/10 11:16 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> I wish Alexander was still around; he knew a lot more about language >> issues than most of us. Mostly because he could read Cyrillic, I >> believe. :-) > > He still monitors the lists, apparently, or at least checks in now and > then. He sent me this message: > > "Hi. I have looked at LFS lists and see that it is going to release with > linux-2.6.35 > please note that by doing so, you'll hit a bug for owners of the same > kind of motherboard as in my home computer > the bug is that the e1000e driver will drop all packets" > > I didn't get to verify the above, but I assume he knows what he's > talking about.
Hmm. On the SVN version I built Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382073] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 1.0.2-k4 Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382321] e1000e: Copyright (c) 1999 - 2009 Intel Corporation. Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382578] alloc irq_desc for 21 on node -1 Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382580] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382583] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21 Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382836] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: setting latency timer to 64 Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382890] alloc irq_desc for 49 on node -1 Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382891] alloc kstat_irqs on node -1 Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.382897] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: irq 49 for MSI/MSI-X Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.512731] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0: (PCI Express:2.5GB/s:Width x1) 00:25:64:38:ec:dd Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.513176] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Aug 16 17:24:55 core2 kernel: [ 2.513453] e1000e 0000:00:19.0: eth0: MAC: 8, PHY: 8, PBA No: 2021ff-0ff I didn't do a huge amount of testing, but ping works fine. Perhaps I have a different chip that uses the same driver. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
