What driver for Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller?

Thaidog · Veteran Joined: 19 May 2004 Posts: 1053

I'm building a VM on VMware Workstation 11. lspci shows I have a Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller but I cannot find a match in the kernel source. Any idea what driver I need?
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P1neapple · n00b Joined: 18 Jul 2014 Posts: 35

http://cateee.net/lkddb/web-lkddb/E1000.html

TD;DR: you need E1000, labelled as "Intel(R) PRO/1000 Gigabit Ethernet support"
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