[Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio Live SDR update request

[Jared Dulmage]

Perhaps this would have been better addressed to John Corgan, but putting it in 
the forum will allow others to possibly track progress if made.

In the latest GNU Radio Live SDR iso version 3.7.9 the Intel e1000e Ethernet 
driver is version 2.3.2 from 2013.  A number of our newer laptops, particularly 
those with the Intel I217-LM Ethernet adapter, lock up and become unresponsive 
after a seemingly random interval (no more than a couple minutes).  Disabling 
the Ethernet in the bios solves the problem, but then you're stuck without 
Ethernet access.

I also ran into a similar problem on a dedicated Ubuntu box.  The solution was 
to update the driver to the newest version from the Intel site 
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/15817.  I think it took me under an 
hour, but I do not know how to manipulate the internals of the iso image.  
Would it be possible to update the Live SDR image?

I would be open to advice on modifying our images locally also.

Thanks,
Jared.
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Jared Dulmage
Engineering Specialist
Digital Comm. and Implementation Dept.
Aerospace Corporation
310-336-3140