Bug 96739 – e1000: New version available: 6.0.60 (5.2.52 currently in portage)

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Alexander Skwar 2005-06-21 15:05:55 UTC]

There's a new version of the e1000 driver available at http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?strState=LIVE&ProductID=983&DwnldID=2897&lang=eng -> http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/T8Clearance.aspx?sType=&agr=&ProductID=983&DwnldID=2897&url=/2897/eng/e1000-6.0.60.tar.gz&PrdMap=&strOSs=&OSFullName=&lang=eng

The version is 6.0.60. In portage, there's 5.2.52.

[Comment 1 Bryan Østergaard (RETIRED) 2005-07-02 09:54:24 UTC]

Martin, looks like you're maintaining e1000. Please add an metadata.xml.

[Comment 2 Robert Förster 2005-12-03 10:16:39 UTC]

whats the status of this?
there is 6.2.15 out already.

[Comment 3 Mario 2006-01-02 14:01:02 UTC]

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=522433
Actually we're looking at 6.3.9 now

[Comment 4 Philipp Hack 2006-02-16 04:50:35 UTC]

Created attachment 79925 [details]
e1000-6.3.9 ebuild

This package hasn't been updated in ages. I helped myself and made a new ebuild based on the latest available in portage. I'm not exactly a pro when it comes to portage, but it works for me. YMMV.

[Comment 5 Mario 2006-02-16 05:15:12 UTC]

Do you know what version is shipping with kernel 2.6.15 (is this ebuild still necessary)?

[Comment 6 Philipp Hack 2006-02-16 05:20:12 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Do you know what version is shipping with kernel 2.6.15 (is this ebuild still
> necessary)?

I'm not sure, but the kernel documentation is from 5.x.x

[Comment 7 Mike Nelson 2006-02-17 20:51:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created an attachment (id=79925) [edit]
> e1000-6.3.9 ebuild
> 
This ebuild works perfectly for me (kernel 2.6.15-gentoo-r1).

[Comment 8 Mike Nelson 2006-02-17 20:54:21 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Do you know what version is shipping with kernel 2.6.15 (is this ebuild still
> necessary)?
> 
The ebuild from Hack was useful for me to get my on-board ethernet to work properly for wake-on-lan after shutdown (02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)). The one in the kernel didn't work for me.

(on 2.6.15-gentoo-r1)

[Comment 9 Brad Plant 2006-05-22 05:23:26 UTC]

Re comment #5

$ pwd
/usr/src/linux-2.6.16-gentoo-r8/drivers/net/e1000

$ grep "#define DRV_VERSION" *
e1000_main.c:#define DRV_VERSION "6.3.9-k4"DRIVERNAPI

HTH,

Brad

[Comment 10 Philipp Hack 2006-05-22 06:01:50 UTC]

(In reply to comment #9)
> Re comment #5
So can we close this thing then?

[Comment 11 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-22 06:39:27 UTC]

(In reply to comment #10)
> (In reply to comment #9)
> > Re comment #5
> So can we close this thing then?
> 

Closing, use the driver bundled in kernel.

[Comment 12 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-05-22 06:42:04 UTC]

Ideally we want to remove the existing version from portage too. mholzer, how do you feel about this?

[Comment 13 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-05-22 09:44:11 UTC]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Ideally we want to remove the existing version from portage too. mholzer, how
> do you feel about this?

Good point... ;)