Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Dec 2005 23:45:10 -0800 | From | Jesse Brandeburg <> | Subject | Re: [Linux 2.4.32] SATA ICH5/PIIX and Combined mode |
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On 12/21/05, Paul Rolland <rol@witbe.net> 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 ?
the latest e1000-6.3.9 driver from http://sf.net/projects/e1000 should work fine with that original 2.4 kernel and will definitely support your new network hardware.
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