Dell Vostro 200

[Blake Hudson]

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Subject: Re: Dell Vostro 200
From: Mogens Kjaer <mk at crc.dk>
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 7:56:57 AM
> tony.chamberlain at lemko.com wrote:
> ...
>> Why are there so many different versions?  This is not the latest, or 
>> at least not the latest according to the link I found.
>
> And why does the F9 kernels have version 7.3.20 and not a newer e1000 
> driver?
>
> Mogens
>
This is actually listed by Intel as "Intel(R) 82562V-2 10/100 Network 
Connection" and is supported by the e100 driver series. Unfortunately, 
Intel goes through hardware device IDs like potato chips, especially 
with their NICs. And since a driver cannot guess at future hardware IDs, 
with each new revision of hardware that Intel decides needs a new ID an 
updated driver is necessary.