Intel is developing a number of drivers on Sourceforge for its Ethernet products on the Linux platform and these are released under the GPL. A new driver has recently been released for the Intel Pro/1000 Gigabit Ethernet products. The version number arrived at 5.7.6 and the changelog looks like this:
Robert Olsson’s fix and refinement to the poll routine
use netif_poll_” rel=”external”>enable|disable to synchronize between poll and i/f down/up
Avoid race condition between e1000_watchdog and e1000_clean_tx_irq
Delay clean-up of last Tx buffer to fix pre-mature writeback of Tx descriptors.
Fix WOL settings in 82544 based adapters
Patch from Peter Kjellstroem — fix lockup with 82547
Add checks for desc ring/rx data bufs spanning 64k address boundary
Report failure code when loopback test fails
Fixes related to Cable length estimation
Driver version number, white space, comments, device id & other changes
| Version number |
5.7.6 |
| Operating systems |
Linux |
| Website |
sourceforge |
| Download |
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| file size |
131.00kB
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| License type |
GPL |