CentOS - Jan 2020 - Centos 8 and E1000 intel driver

Folks

I know that support for the network adaptors supported by the 'e1000' 
driver have been removed from the base distribution.  However, I have 
exactly that controller (Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet PCI, not 
PCIe).  Is there a way for me to add support for that on Centos 
8.1?  Perhaps a driver in an RPM package?

Thanks

David

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 3:16 PM david <david at daku.org>
wrote:
>
> Folks
>
> I know that support for the network adaptors supported by the
'e1000'
> driver have been removed from the base distribution.  However, I have
> exactly that controller (Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet PCI, not
> PCIe).  Is there a way for me to add support for that on Centos
> 8.1?  Perhaps a driver in an RPM package?
>
> Thanks
>
> David
The e1000 driver should be in the 8.1 kernel:

$ modinfo e1000
filename:
/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.ko.xz
version:        7.3.21-k8-NAPI
license:        GPL
description:    Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver
author:         Intel Corporation, <linux.nics at intel.com>
rhelversion:    8.1

Akemi

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 3:16 PM david <david at daku.org> wrote:
> Folks
>
> I know that support for the network adaptors supported by the
'e1000'
> driver have been removed from the base distribution.  However, I have
> exactly that controller (Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet PCI, not
> PCIe).  Is there a way for me to add support for that on Centos
> 8.1?  Perhaps a driver in an RPM package?
>
>
e1000 is Intel, not Broadcom.   Broadcom drivers are generally BCM
something, like bcm5700



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At 03:27 PM 1/17/2020, Akemi Yagi wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 3:16 PM david <david at daku.org> wrote:
> >
> > Folks
> >
> > I know that support for the network adaptors supported by the
'e1000'
> > driver have been removed from the base distribution.  However, I have
> > exactly that controller (Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet PCI, not
> > PCIe).  Is there a way for me to add support for that on Centos
> > 8.1?  Perhaps a driver in an RPM package?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > David
>
>The e1000 driver should be in the 8.1 kernel:
>
>$ modinfo e1000
>filename:
>/lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.ko.xz
>version:        7.3.21-k8-NAPI
>license:        GPL
>description:    Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver
>author:         Intel Corporation, <linux.nics at intel.com>
>rhelversion:    8.1
>
>Akemi
>_________
Akemi

Thanks for the suggestion.  Modinfo does produce that result.  But 
"the network doesn't work".  My environment is a VirtualBox VM of 
Centos 8 on top of Windows 10.  I've defined a bridged adaptor. The 
hardware is the Broadcom adaptor, using DHCP.  No firewall is running 
in Centos 8 yet.  This exact configuration works fine with Centos 7.

The symptom I see is that DHCP, Ping, DNS Lookup all work, but no 
data transfer seems to work.  I tried a CURL command to a local web 
machine (works with Centos 7), and it just hangs.  The web server 
does not see the request.

When I switch the network adaptor (in the VM) to NAT, everything 
works, probably indicating that the selection of the adaptor is the 
problem.  I used the NAT interface to complete the install.  Do you 
have any ideas?

David