Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932338AbVLVEmJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:42:09 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932382AbVLVEmJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:42:09 -0500 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:9928 "EHLO pd4mo3so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932338AbVLVEmH (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Dec 2005 23:42:07 -0500 Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 22:42:02 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [Linux 2.4.32] SATA ICH5/PIIX and Combined mode In-reply-to: <5maE0-21N-1@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <43AA2E9A.1080007@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <5maE0-21N-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <5maE0-21N-1@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1208 Lines: 29 Paul Rolland wrote: > Well, the other way around is to upgrade e1000 driver in the 2.4.21EL-smp, > as the machine I'm using is quite new, and RHES3 kernel can't find the > Ethernet device, so the machine has no network. > My first idea was to consider this as an opportunity to upgrade to the > latest 2.4.x kernel, but reading you, this looks like a bad idea... > 2.6.x would be better ? First make sure you have the latest RHEL3 errata kernel installed. If that still doesn't work, you could install the latest e1000 driver module from Intel. Later vanilla 2.4 kernels are not necessarily an "upgrade" from Red Hat kernels based on older 2.4 versions as you lose all the Red Hat patches like NPTL and the O(1) scheduler. If you are going to go to a 2.6 kernel you might as well just go to a newer distribution. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/