Re: [Xen-users] xen kernel and e1000 problem

Anand Gupta
Tue, 26 Dec 2006 20:17:41 -0000

Hi Roberto,

thanks for the quick response. I will try to do that.

Btw I had tried to load Ubuntu Edgy on this machine earlier and under that
the card worked (i believe it has 2.6.17 series kernel).

On 12/27/06, Roberto De Ioris <roberto@unbit.it>
wrote:
>
> On mer, 2006-12-27 at 01:31 +0530, Anand Gupta wrote:
> > I have tried to search for this on this mailing list however
haven''t
> > had any luck with a solution.
> >
> > The problem basically is as follows:
> >
> > WoodCrest 5150
> > Intel s5000xvn Motherboard
> > 4GB Ram
> > 750 GB SATA
> >
> > Now when i run centos 4.4 kernel, the onboard 2 Intel Gigabit ethernet
> > work out of the box.
> >
> > However when i compile a xen kernel (tried "make dist",
manual kernel
> > compile), the two ethernet stop working. It looks as though the system
> > tries to setup them as wireless cards. Here is the output
> > of /etc/init.d/network restart with xen enabled kernel.
>
>
> Probably your card is not supported by the e1000 driver in 2.6.16
> kernel.
>
> You can compile the latest e1000 module (taken from intel website)
>
> http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000/software.htm
>
> for kernel 2.6.16
>
>
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> Roberto De Ioris
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