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Network Driver Build for Red Hat RHEL5U2 using Intel Wired Ethernet Project on SourceForge.net

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on January 19, 2009 at 11:49 am

Recently, I received a Intel Nehalem server board upgrade that has Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit Ethernet devices (52572) as onboard NIC for software development testing. When I installed Red Hat RHEL 5 Update 2, I found out that the Red Hat did not provide the drivefor the onboard NIC. On Red Hat Network Configuration utility, adding default Intel Pro/1000 network device still not able to get the network driver. It seems that RHEL5U2 does not have 5257x  driver build in the OS

I was latter referred by Intel Premier support to the Intel Wired Ethernet Project on Sourceforge.net ( http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=42302 ). This project contains the Linux kernel driver for the Intel(R) PRO/100 Ethernet devices, Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit Ethernet devices, and Intel(R) PRO/10GbE devices. This project serves as a focal point for further driver development and discussion.

After reading File Release Notes in above link, I found out that  the stable igb driver version 1.3.8.6 driver support 82575/82576 devices, and downloaded the igb-1.3.8.6.tar.gz file.

My driver build look something like this:

 #  cd Desktop (or wherever you put the igb driver on the Linux system)

 #  tar -zxvf igb-1.3.8.6.tar.gz

 #  cd igb-1.3.8.6

 #  cd src

 #  make

 #  make install

Reboot the system, or restart the network device, and go to network configuration utility to active the device. You should be able to get onboard network device working on your system

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