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Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 08:48:52 -0800
From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: e1000 driver problems
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Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 26, 2007 at 03:26:08PM -0800, Kok, Auke wrote:
>> The fix for this has been to grant more time for the hardware to recover
>> from this busy state. I'll make sure to check if the upstream drivers are OK
>> in this regard.
>>
>> you can try our out-of-tree e1000 driver (7.6.x or newer) which should work
>> OK for you with respect to this problem. Please give that a try.
> 
> unfortunately, the 7.6.9 driver cannot be compiled with 2.6.24-rc3-git2
> kernel due to compilation errors.

but the in-kernel version of e1000 supports the ich8 lan device just fine and can
be builtin. also this kernel has the first release of e1000e which supports the
ich9 onboard lan device.

Auke
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