We are talking about the igb driver and not e1000, correct?  Just want to make 
sure we are talking about the correct driver.  BTW, our very latest drivers can 
be found at http:/e1000.sf.net which has all of our latest drivers including 
the igb driver.  You might want to try our latest version.

> I signaled the issue before, and it was suggested I may need to update
> network card's firmware:
> 
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network.general/14930
Who told you to update the firmware?  The link doesn't show anything like that. 
 We don't hand out updates to firmware.  It's possible that it can be updated 
via a system BIOS upgrade.  Is this system running the very latest system BIOS 
from HP?

> http://virtall.com/files/temp/IMG00066-20110420-0956.jpg
> http://virtall.com/files/temp/IMG00067-20110420-0957.jpg
> http://virtall.com/files/temp/2011-06-15_16-19-51_252.jpg
The all just show the stack, nothing about the driver.  What makes you think 
that it's the driver?

> - the last time it crashed, I had "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL
> pointer dereference at (null)" in syslog (and nothing more, had to hard
> reboot)
Again, not the driver.

> - can it be really attributed to the network card? if so, what next?
>From what has been supplied so far, there is no indication that it is the 
>driver.

> - would upgrading to a different kernel help (i.e. is it a known issue
> in e1000 resolved in >2.6.35)?
There is no indication that of what the problem could be so we really can't 
answer this.  As stated above it's still very unclear that it's a driver issue.

> 07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network
> 07:00.1 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network
These indicate that you need to be using the igb driver.

If you get us something that shows the driver as part of the issue, we'd be 
happy to help.  However, right now that is not the case.

Thanks,
John

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