Re: Applying e1000e patch to the Debian 2.6.26 kernel
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:50:34AM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> dann frazier wrote:
> >>> 95b866d e1000e: Fix incorrect debug warning
> >>> [...]
> >>> a5136e2 e1000e: allow VLAN devices to use TSO and TCP CSUM offload
> >>>
> >>> I've put these individual changes in
> >>> http://womble.decadent.org.uk/tmp/e1000e-patches/ so you don't need to
> >>> use git to generate them.
>
> Hi,
>
> I started to try yesterday, and finished today, and I'm very surprised
> here. I just used the package linux-source-2.6.26 from Lenny, unpacked
> the resulting archive in /usr/src, did make-kpkg, dpkg -i of the
> resulting image, mkinitrdfs, edited my grub menu.lst and rebooted. The I
> was expecting my e1000e to not work at all. But it did work, without
> applying any patch.
>
> The issue here is NOT my laptop (in fact, I don't care my laptop, I run
> the newest kernel 2.6.30 on it). I want to have the Debian kernel to
> work on the core i7 boards of Supermicro, the X8STi-3F, that has 2
> e1000e boards. Last time my employee Felix in Singapore tried the Debian
> installer CD in our hardware supplier place in Singapore, it did NOT
> recognize the network board.
>
> So I'm wondering, did somebody applied some patches for e1000e between
> the release of Lenny 5.01? Or maybe, the e1000e on the X8STi-3F is
> different from the one of my Thinkpad t500? Is there even different
> versions of the board at Intel?
>
> I'd appreciate some pointers here. It's really so important for our
> business to have this issue solved, and I guess that I'm not the only
> one that desperately need to run the Debian Xen kernel with e1000e
> (running custom made Xen kernels is not an option as we have too many
> servers in production).
Can you provide the bootlog of your machine when booting 1) the debian
kernel and 2) when booting your custom kernel?
--
dann frazier
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