CentOS 8 And E1000 Intel Driver

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Folks

I know that support for the network adaptors supported by the ‘e1000’
driver have been removed from the base distribution. However, I have exactly that controller (Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet PCI, not PCIe). Is there a way for me to add support for that on CentOS
8.1? Perhaps a driver in an RPM package?

Thanks

David

4 thoughts on - CentOS 8 And E1000 Intel Driver

  • The e1000 driver should be in the 8.1 kernel:

    $ modinfo e1000
    filename:
    /lib/modules/4.18.0-147.3.1.el8_1.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000.ko.xz version: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI
    license: GPL
    description: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver author: Intel Corporation, rhelversion: 8.1

    Akemi

  • At 03:27 PM 1/17/2020, Akemi Yagi wrote:

    Akemi

    Thanks for the suggestion. Modinfo does produce that result. But
    “the network doesn’t work”. My environment is a VirtualBox VM of CentOS 8 on top of Windows 10. I’ve defined a bridged adaptor. The hardware is the Broadcom adaptor, using DHCP. No firewall is running in CentOS 8 yet. This exact configuration works fine with CentOS 7.

    The symptom I see is that DHCP, Ping, DNS Lookup all work, but no data transfer seems to work. I tried a CURL command to a local web machine (works with CentOS 7), and it just hangs. The web server does not see the request.

    When I switch the network adaptor (in the VM) to NAT, everything works, probably indicating that the selection of the adaptor is the problem. I used the NAT interface to complete the install. Do you have any ideas?

    David

  • At 03:27 PM 1/17/2020, Akemi Yagi wrote:

    Akemi

    Thanks for the suggestion. Modinfo does produce that result. But
    “the network doesn’t work”. My environment is a VirtualBox VM of CentOS 8 on top of Windows 10. I’ve defined a bridged adaptor. The hardware is the Broadcom adaptor, using DHCP. No firewall is running in CentOS 8 yet. This exact configuration works fine with CentOS 7.

    The symptom I see is that DHCP, Ping, DNS Lookup all work, but no data transfer seems to work. I tried a CURL command to a local web machine (works with CentOS 7), and it just hangs. The web server does not see the request.

    When I switch the network adaptor (in the VM) to NAT, everything works, probably indicating that the selection of the adaptor is the problem. I used the NAT interface to complete the install. Do you have any ideas?

    David

    *********** WHOA ***************

    It appears that this is not a CentOS issue. My other VM’s have stopped working also. The common factor is the use of a Bridged Network in VirtualBox on Windows 10 updated last week. Based upon prior similar events, I’d guess it’s a Windows screw-up. Oh well.

    David