[elrepo] Announcement: EL5 Updated kmod-e1000e Release [Version 1.5.1]

[Steve Cleveland]

Excellent.  This version seems to fix the issue with suspend and 
wake-on-lan.

Some background.  The default redhat driver had a strange issue on at 
least some Intel nics.  You could suspend a machine and use wake-on-lan 
to wake it.  But then if you tried to suspend it again, it wouldn't 
actually go into suspend, it would just immediately resume.  You 
couldn't even power it off.  Had to be unplugged to get it off.

I had tried a couple of versions of the 1.3 driver from elrepo.  It 
would sleep, but then sometimes crash on resume.  I didn't actually try 
the 1.4 series.

Thanks for keeping this driver updated!

  - Steve

On 08/24/11 18:26, Alan Bartlett wrote:
> Announcing the release of updated kmod-e1000e packages in the EL5
> elrepo repository:
>
> http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-e1000e
>
> This package provides an updated e1000e driver, version 1.5.1, and is
> kABI compatible with all kernels from 5.4 (kernel-2.6.18-164.el5)
> upwards.
>
> It is built to depend upon the specific ABI provided by a range of
> releases of the same variant of the Linux kernel and not on any one
> specific build.
>
> The following files are currently syncing to the mirrors:
>
> x86
> kmod-e1000e-1.5.1-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
> kmod-e1000e-PAE-1.5.1-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
> kmod-e1000e-xen-1.5.1-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
>
> x86_64
> kmod-e1000e-1.5.1-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
> kmod-e1000e-xen-1.5.1-1.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm
>
> src
> e1000e-kmod-1.5.1-1.el5.elrepo.src.rpm
>
> You may update your system by:
>
> yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo update kmod-e1000e
>
> Once the package has been updated, remember to unload the old driver
> before loading the newer version into the kernel:
>
> /sbin/ifdown ethN
> /sbin/modprobe -r e1000e
> /sbin/modprobe e1000e
> /sbin/ifup ethN
>
> Thank you,
>
> The ELRepo Team.
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