i210/i217 unsupported by igb / e1000e driver in precise

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Would it be possible for you to test the latest upstream kernel? Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please test the latest v3.10 kernel[0].

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[0] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.10-rc2-saucy/

No need to test the upstream kernel as requested in comment #2. It sounds like there is already a fix in 3.5 and newer kernels. Do you happen to know the SHA1 for the fix? If not, I can do some searches.

Hi Joseph,

Initial support was added mostly upstream kernel 3.5

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=2fbe4526e5aafc9ffa5d85fa4749a7c5b22af6b2
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb?id=f96a8a0b78548c0ec06b0b4b438db6ee895d67e9

There are a number of further patches which fixed a lot of things beyond
the initial support.

Best regards,
Markus

If support for the i210/i217 NIC's landed in 3.5, they should be supported with the 12.04.2 or newer Precise point releases since those will ship with a newer kernel by default, ie. 12.04.2==Quantal Kernel, 12.04.3 == Raring Kernel, 12.04.4 == Saucy Kernel.

There is some info avaiable at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuDesktop#LTS_Hardware_Enablement_Stack

Hello Joseph,

so the official/canonical way to get support for new hardware is to install any of the lts-backports kernel because drivers do not get backported into the lts kernel itself, correct?

closing this bug as invalid myself, as the driver support is included in 12.04.2 with the HWE-Stack