The e1000e driver supports PCI Express Gigabit Network Connections except the 82575, 82576, 82580, and I350.

The Linux base drivers support the 2.4.x and 2.6.x kernels. These drivers includes support for Itanium® 2-based systems.

These drivers are only supported as a loadable module. Intel is not supplying patches against the kernel source to allow for static linking of the drivers. For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the documentation supplied with your Intel Gigabit adapter. All hardware requirements listed apply to use with Linux.

The following features are now available in supported kernels:

Native VLANs
Channel Bonding (teaming)
SNMP

tar zxf e1000e*
cd e1000e-*
make install

will be installed to:
/lib/modules//kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.[k]o

modprobe e1000e insmod e1000e
insmod /lib/modules//kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko

reload old e1000e driver:
rmmod e1000e; modprobe e1000e