Download Driver For Intel Pro/1000 6.0.54

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 6.0.54 and the changelog looks like this:

Changes:

• Enable MSI support for PCI-e adapters
• Enable polling before enabling interrupts — avoids (in NAPI mode) entering the ISR and returning without doing any work because polling is not enabled.
• Fix 100M cable causing a kernel panic with Tabor-II LOM on Dell 1800
• Fix Tanacross-B1 nics not transmitting — Tanacross-B1 not covered explicitly in the case statement for PBA allocation
• Delay clean-up of last Tx packet to fix pre-mature writeback issue of Tx descriptors only when TSO is enabled
• Dump information on Tx ring when ‘NETDEV: Watchdog’ condition is reached
• Adjust flow control watermarks for Jumbo Frames
• Fix computation of netdev statistics from controller statistics counters
• e1000 stops working after resume, call pci_enable_device after pci_restore_state – Modified version Andrew Mortons patch
• Added the code to implement the 82546 errata 10 where the 1st descriptor cannot have more than 2015 byte of data in it or it could hang the transmitter.
• Removed redundant cleaned = (i == eop); statement in clean_tx_irq
• Modified e1000_clean:: exit poll if no Tx and work_done == 0
• Enable logic in the driver to exercise the header split logic in the controller
• Enhancements to the driver for initialization/teardown of the 82573 controller
• Enhance loopback test for robustness
• Enable 82541ER, 82547ER and Quad-port devices.