Intel 82571/2/3/4 82566/7 PCI-E Gigabit Network Adapter Driver 0.5.11.2 for Linux

Date Added: Jul 2009 / OS: Linux / File Size: 199 KB / Publisher: Intel

This release includes three Linux Base Drivers for Intel Gigabit Network Connections.

- igb driver supports all 82575 and 82576-based gigabit network connections.
- e1000 driver supports PCI and PCI-X gigabit network connections.
- e1000e driver supports all PCI Express gigabit network connections, except those that are 82575 and 82576-based.

Upgrading:
If you currently have the e1000 driver installed and need to install e1000e, perform the following:

- If your version of e1000 is 7.6.15.5 or less, upgrade to e1000 version 8.x, using the instructions in the README.
- Install the e1000e driver using the instructions in the README.
- Modify /etc/modprobe.conf to point your PCIe devices to use the new e1000e driver using alias ethX e1000e, or use your distribution's specific method for configuring network adapters like RedHat's setup/system-config-network or SuSE's yast2.

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