Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 [LWN.net]

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

Posted Sep 22, 2008 21:09 UTC (Mon) by abatters (✭ supporter ✭, #6932)
Parent article: Serious e1000e Driver Issue in SLE 11 Beta 1 and openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382

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so it's not just SUSE?

Posted Sep 22, 2008 22:21 UTC (Mon) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]

Seems e1000e owners should avoid 2.6.27-rc1, right?

Seems current 2.6.27-rc* is effected

Posted Sep 23, 2008 3:04 UTC (Tue) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325) [Link]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459202
It effects Fedora rawhide too. This has been added as a blocker for F10 Beta. (Although Beta was already delayed due to installer problems.)

Jesse Brandeburg at Intel's warning seems pretty important:
> Please DO NOT run ibautil as some sites on the web suggest to try to fix
> this issue. It will likely cause you to have to replace your motherboard
> to get LAN functionality back.

Ubuntu Intrepid alphas as well

Posted Sep 23, 2008 5:25 UTC (Tue) by tallcedars (guest, #49434) [Link]

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/263555