Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1

openSUSE is warning of nasty interaction between Intel e1000e network cards and the driver in SUSE 11.1 betas. They are asking users with that hardware not to run either openSUSE 11.1 beta 1 and SLE 11.1 beta 1 while SUSE and Intel investigate the problem. The driver "might have a serious issue with the potential to damage the network card in a way that it cannot be used any longer." Click below for the full announcement.

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