From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 10600] New: e1000 updates rx_bytes infrequently Date: Sun, 11 May 2008 23:18:06 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080511.231806.193710614.davem@davemloft.net> References: <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F52051AAF84@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> <36D9DB17C6DE9E40B059440DB8D95F52051AB314@orsmsx418.amr.corp.intel.com> <4827D947.8090804@acm.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jesse.brandeburg@intel.com, mchan@broadcom.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org, john.ronciak@intel.com To: liblit@acm.org Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:45757 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752831AbYELGSN (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2008 02:18:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4827D947.8090804@acm.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Liblit Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 00:44:39 -0500 > Jesse Brandeburg wrote: > > and for e1000e (which you should be using for 82566) > > That seems unlikely. When I replace "alias eth0 e1000" with "alias eth0 > e100e" in my module configuration I lose the network interface entirely. You're missing a zero in that string, it's "e1000e" not "e100e", and did you make sure to enable CONFIG_E1000E in your kernel config?