DKMS Question

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 03:04:09PM -0500, Ben Ruset wrote:
> Hi All:
> 
> I have a PE2900 with the PERC5/e controller. As mentioned in the other 
> thread that has been going on, there's an updated driver from Dell for 
> this card. I'm seeing pretty awful performance from this card (as other 
> people are seeing) so I'd like to update the driver.
> 
> I don't have DKMS installed. What's the best, and least destructive way, 
> of updating the driver and/or getting DKMS installed?

You don't mention which distribution you're running, but DKMS is
available for download on linux.dell.com at
http://linux.dell.com/dkms/dkms-2.0.17.5-1.noarch.rpm
and is in the Fedora, EPEL, and Ubuntu (>= 7.10) Universe repositories
too.

The version in the Dell Software repository on
linux.dell.com/repo/software is somewhat out-of-date I see. :-(

The driver package itself includes a copy of dkms-2.0.13 I see.
That should be good enough too, but I know  a few bugs have been fixed
since then that would be nice to have the newer version.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
Linux Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux