Bug 448569

Summary: Use the driver update process to update the e1000e driver to support ICH9m, ICH10 and Hartwell controllers
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: John Ronciak <john.ronciak>
Component: driver-update-programAssignee: Jon Masters <jcm>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
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Version: 5.2.zCC: andriusb, jane.lv, jvillalo, rpacheco, syeghiay, youquan.song
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Description John Ronciak 2008-05-27 17:22:27 UTC
Description of problem:
Post 5.2 the e1000e driver needs to be updated to support the ICH9m, ICH10 and
Hartwell controllers.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Update to the latest version of the Intel e1000e driver, needs to be at least
version 0.4.1.  Changes will be pushed upstream prior to the update.

How reproducible:
RHEL5.2 e1000e driver will not support the ICH9m, ICH10 and Harwell controllers
which OEMs are asking for.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try ot load the e1000e driver on any of the unsupported HW.
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Actual results:
No support for the new controllers.

Expected results:
Work on the new controllers

Additional info:

Comment 1 Suzanne Logcher 2008-08-06 14:23:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 448570 ***