<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_19478"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Hi,</span><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_19473" style="display: block;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_19472"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_19471"><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_19477"><div id="yiv7247869872"><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_20624"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5518"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5519"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5520"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5521">I'm
using Ubuntu 16.04 with kernel 4.4.30-rt41. I'm looking for e1000e driver for
kernel 4.4. The latest kernel for which I was able to find the e1000e driver
was 3.18. </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5523"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5524"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5525"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5526">A patch
with this driver would be great but even advices are much appreciated.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5528"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5529"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5530"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5531">I'm not
so knowledgeable about Linux or Etherlab’s EtherCAT Master but I have used
these around 3 yrs ago for a few projects. At that time I used Ubuntu 12.04
with kernel 3.2 (with RT patch) for which e1000e driver was available. I’m
playing with these in my spare time so not enough time to go into details.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5533"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5534"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5535"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5536">Currently
I'm able to use the generic driver with kernel 4.4 but in the past I used to
face some problems when using generic driver. These problems went away once I
have used the e1000e driver.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5538"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5539"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5540"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5541">Once
again any kind of help in this direction is appreciated.</span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5543"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5544"> </span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5545"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;" id="yiv7247869872yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1479731762017_5546">Valerian
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