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From: Jean Aumont <jaumont@mediagrif.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: EM Intel Driver Upgrage to Version 6.9.20 in Freebsd 7.x 
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>Number:         152582
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [em] request: merge em Intel Driver Upgrage to Version 6.9.20 in Freebsd 7.x
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 25 22:30:11 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:    Sun Feb 24 23:12:01 UTC 2013
>Last-Modified:  Sun Feb 24 23:12:01 UTC 2013
>Originator:     Jean Aumont
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.2
>Organization:
Mediagrif
>Environment:
FreeBSD Hostname 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov 27 07:17:12 EST 2009     root@Hostname:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC-MDF2  amd64
>Description:
Hi everyone,

It would be great if an upgrade of the EM Intel driver was done for FreeBSD 7.x.

Currently FreeBSD 7.x uses version 6.9.6 of the Intel driver, dated May 30, 2007.

Version 6.9.21 is available from the intel site and is dated Oct 21,2009.

This new version supports a lot of new chipset like the Intel 82578DC.

It would be a great improvement. 

Thanks,

Jean Aumont



>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
Go to the intel site: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ and search for:

"Network Adapter Gigabit Base Driver for FreeBSD"





>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Sun Feb 24 23:11:15 UTC 2013 
State-Changed-Why:  
I'm sorry that this PR was not addressed in a prompt manner.  It has now 
been obsoleted by subsequent events. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152582 
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