We ordered a couple of the new HP DL160 G6, cause they can be equipped with a lot of RAM. Unfortunately it’s always the same with HP and the bandnew ProLiant 100 series … the driver for the NICs is missing/too old in the latest stable debian release. The DL160 G6 is shipped with a Intel 82576 GBit NIC, which isn’t recognized by Lenny, see also #522922.
I installed the system with another NIC installed (not really, but this is a way it works :) and wanted to get free the PCI-X slot again. So I did backport dkms and downloaded the latest igb driver. A short look into /usr/share/doc/dkms/HOWTO.Debian did advice me the way to create the DKMS driver package. Just after a couple of minutes I did roll out the igb-dkms_2.0.6_all.deb to the target maschine(s).
On the target systems I just installed dkms, the DKMS package and appropriate linux-headers and … sim, salabim … there was the interfaces. :)
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hi all,
i am facing the same problem .i am trying to add my intel ethernet controller driver in a backport tree as i seen in the http://linux.dell.com/git/dkms.git/?p=dkms.git;a=blob;f=debian/HOWTO.Debian;hb=HEAD . but its givs error as error! Could not find module source directory.
Directory: /usr/src/igbvf-1.0.7 does not exist.
plz help me ……………
How about the following:
wget “http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/files/igbvf%20stable/igbvf-1.0.7.tar.gz/download” \
-O /tmp/igbvf-1.0.7.tar.gz
tar -xzf /tmp/igbvf-1.0.7.tar.gz -C /tmp/
cp -R /tmp/igbvf-1.0.7/src/ /usr/src/igbvf-1.0.7/
wget “http://blog.waja.info/downloads/dkms.conf” -O /tmp/dkms.conf
cp /tmp/dkms.conf /usr/src/igbvf-1.0.7/
dkms add -m igbvf -v 1.0.7
dkms build -m igbvf -v 1.0.7
dkms mkdeb -m igbvf -v 1.0.7
hi,
i made it ………..
thanks for helping me………..
Hi,
I wrote an article about using igb drivers during a Debian netinst installation and then use your package on the definitive system.
http://www.cblue.be/blog/debian-lenny-netinst-new-igb
Thanks for your package and your article.
Regards,
Arnaud.
A fixed driver will be provided with linux-2.6 2.6.26-21, which should be included in 5.0.4, which is announced for to be released for the last friday this month. So we will have prebuild installers available.
hi cyco ,
can the linux-2.6 2.6.26-21 in 5.0.4 fix the Intel 82576 GBit NIC card problems without doing backport?
Jepp, 2.6.26-21lenny3 (since 5.0.4) solves the issue. So the dkms workaround is deprecated.
I did not understand what are u saying? please tells me in details if u have time .
actually i make cd of 504 lenny but at the time of installation its gives as …….no ethernet card found ….and if i choose igb driver it cant accept.
plz help me?
Just from the linux-2.6 (2.6.26-21) changelog:
* igb: Add 82576 MAC support (Closes: #522922), backport
by Ben Hutchings