This was committed to Linus's tree:
b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533
e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out
The same fix will be in the out-of-tree driver that will be pushed to
SourceForge in the next week or so.
Dave Ertman
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua Anhalt [mailto:anh...@andrew.cmu.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2014 6:37 PM
> To: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] i217-LM boot wreckage
>
> Regarding this patch, is there an estimate for when it may be released?
>
> On March 26, 2014, at 9:02 PM, Ertman, DavidX M <davidx.ertman@in...>
> wrote:
>
> > Just an update. A patch for this issue was submitted into our internal
> queue on Monday and is in review/testing.
> >
> > Dave Ertman
>
>
> Perhaps we have a different issue, but the symptoms appear to be the
> same. We have a large number of Dell M6800 laptops, with the Intel i217-LM
> NIC. They behave just as Thomas Gleixner described earlier in this thread.
> (If we boot them without the ethernet cable attached, then attach the cable,
> we cannot establish a wired connection.)
>
> We have another trigger than shows the same behavior, if the laptop booted
> with an attached a wired connection via a docking station, then undock the
> laptop, and connect a wired connection directly to the laptop's ethernet port,
> (many times but not all), the NIC will enter apparently the same state as if
> you booted without a cable attached. (ethtool shows it is up, but Receive
> counters do not increase, tcpdump shows no traffic, DHCP never finds an
> address, etc.)
>
> Thank You,
> Joshua Anhalt
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