wounded in the line of duty
Just note that the e1000e-driver is already available in RHEL-5.2 (and therefor CentOS-5.2).
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html
It might be that your new ThinkPad contains a newer version of the Intel-NIC and the e1000e-driver required an update.
Even though, Red Hat does the backporting of the driver and seems to track changes too. Great work!
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The e1000e-driver is already in RHEL-5.2
Just note that the e1000e-driver is already available in RHEL-5.2 (and therefor CentOS-5.2).
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html
It might be that your new ThinkPad contains a newer version of the Intel-NIC and the e1000e-driver required an update.
Even though, Red Hat does the backporting of the driver and seems to track changes too. Great work!