What OS release are you going to be using, 8.2 ? The driver in HEAD is the
latest code, the internal tarball goes thru release machinery so it is
lagging a
bit (2.3.8 vs 2.3.11), you should be OK in either case, but I'd recommend
the newer.
Jack
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Sami Halabi <sodynet1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> i have a 82599EB network card.
> the ixgbe driver on 8* supports 82598 cards, although it identified my card
> but i'm not sure it will work fine and won't make kernel panics,
since its
> a
> production server i want to put a good driver that will work without
> problems.
>
> I just found this from the Intel website.
> Looks like they have added support for the 82598 and 82599 which isn't
on
> the ixgbe driver on 8 stable/release.
>
> *
>
>
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=14688&lang=eng
> *
>
> is it safe to dowload and put the files of this driver in /sys/dev/ixgbe
> and
> then install it?
>
> is it simply: *make && make install && make clean*?
> i guess i need to recompile the kernel also because ixgbe is on the GENERIC
> kernel.
>
> what do you advise me?
>
>
>
> --
> Sami Halabi
> Information Systems Engineer
> NMS Projects Expert
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