Download Driver For Intel Pro/1000 5.7.6

By admin On Feb 16, 2005

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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
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file size	131.00kB
License type	GPL