Bug 448569 - Use the driver update process to update the e1000e driver to support ICH9m, ICH10 and Hartwell controllers
Summary: Use the driver update process to update the e1000e driver to support ICH9m, I...
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 448570
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: driver-update-program
Version: 5.2.z
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jon Masters
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Blocks: 448570
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Reported: 2008-05-27 17:22 UTC by John Ronciak
Modified: 2008-10-16 14:27 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-08-06 14:23:02 UTC
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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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3.
  
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 ***
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