Bug 479436

Summary:	Intel 82575EB NIC doesn't work with igb driver provided with 5.2
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Stefan Freyr Stefansson <stefan.freyr>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Red Hat Kernel Manager <kernel-mgr>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Priority:	low
Version:	5.2	CC:	ajb, amyagi, herbert.xu, james.brown, jolsa, sassmann, tgraf
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Description Stefan Freyr Stefansson 2009-01-09 16:23:49 UTC

Description of problem:
I've tried doing a netinstall on a SuperMicro box that uses the Intel 82575EB chipset for the integrated NICs. The network does not work, either when I try DHCP or manually specifying static network information.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
5.2

How reproducible:
Try to perform a netinstall using an NIC that has the above Intel chipset. In my case it was this box: http://supermicro.com/products/system/4U/7045/SYS-7045A-WT.cfm.

Steps to Reproduce:

  
Actual results:
DHCP doesn't work and manually specifying network information in the installer results in a hanging install.

Expected results:
Network should work.

Additional info:
I have solved the problem by using an updated version of the igb driver. Here's a link to the discussion that eventually resulted in the solution (and a description of the solution is there as well):
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=65509&topic_id=17988&forum=37

Comment 1 James G. Brown III 2009-01-25 22:12:48 UTC

Stefan, This should have been fixed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 released this past week.

- James

Comment 2 Stefan Assmann 2011-03-04 10:04:14 UTC

This should be fixed by now. Please reopen if you still see this problem.