E1000

Intel PRO/100, PRO/1000 Drivers

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Intel e100 and e1000 drivers are on the mainline Linux kernel tree for a long time now. You should use the drivers that come with the kernel, unless you do know better. This is particularly true for the e1000 driver.

Intel(R) PRO/10/100/1000/10GbE Drivers

• The drivers home page - http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/

Issues

• EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid problem
• 99.9% packet loss on 7.x drivers

Hints

• If you have problems, try disabling MSI support in the kernel.
• Don't complain here about a bug that has not been reported to the kernel bugzilla.
• If a gigabit ethernet link won't stay up, try tunning at 100Mbit/s. If it works, the cabling is your main suspect.