Support for Intel EG20T Gigabit Ethernet Controller in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Solution Verified - Updated -

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2

Issue

  • We are using system with Intel Atom based processor (Z610) and Tunnel Creek chipset
  • Intel EG20T Gigabit Ethernet Controller on the board is not supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS

Resolution

The hardware is not supported by current RHEL6 kernel available on RHN.
Red Hat Bug #728177 (internal) is created for inclusion of support for the hardware in RHEL.
The support for Intel EG20T Gigabit Ethernet Controller is included in kernel-2.6.32-254.el6 (not public on RHN)
Support for the hardware should be available with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3

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