E1000

Intel PRO/100, PRO/1000 Drivers

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Intel e100 and e1000 drivers are on the mainline Linux kernel tree for a long time now. You should use the drivers that come with the kernel, unless you experience problems. Often a newer driver is available from the e1000 project site on sourceforge earlier than that it is merged in the kernel.

Intel(R) PRO/10/100/1000/10GbE Drivers

• The drivers home page - http://e1000.sf.net/

Issues

• EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid problem
• 99.9% packet loss on 7.x drivers
• Long ping times

Hints

• If you have problems, try disabling MSI support in the kernel.
• Don't complain here about a bug that has not been reported to the kernel bugzilla or the e1000 bug tracker
• If a gigabit ethernet link won't stay up, try tunning at 100Mbit/s (modprobe e1000 Speed=100) If it works, the cabling is your main suspect.

External links

• e1000 modprobe parameters, the most recent version is in the README file in the e1000 tarball