Download Driver For Intel Pro/1000 5.3.19

Intel has drivers available for the Linux platform for some of its Ethernet products. Most of these drivers are released under the GPL and developed on Sourceforge. There we also find the latest driver for the Intel Pro/1000 gigabit Ethernet products. The version number arrived at 5.3.19 and the changelog looks like this:

• ethtool support cleanup, register dump chacks controller type before dumping registers, interrupt diagnostic test addresses shared IRQ case
• Enable TSO needs another patch to be submitted separately
• replace kmalloc with vmalloc for data structures that are not shared with the hardware
• TSO context descriptor setup fixes (in preparation for IPv6 TSO)
• Fix to prevent infinite loop trying to re-establish link while actively attempting to communicate
• Fix the condition that determines when to quit pollong mode to include work done in the Tx path
• use pci_dma_single_[for_device|for_cpu]
• Shutdown PHY while bringing the interface down (if WoL is not enabled)
• add likely/unlikely to assist branch prediction, other cleanup
• more DPRINTK messages
• suspend/resume fix from alex
• white space corrections