Kaustubh Gadkari wrote: > Hi, > > As an FYI for the Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse testers .. if you have an Intel > PRO 1000 ethernet controller and use the e1000e driver, the kernel in > use by these distributions in their new alpha/beta releases seems to > break the EEPROM of the ethernet controller. > > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382 > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/263555 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459202 > > The issue seems to be with the free driver provided by Intel.
This affects any distribution that includes 2.6.27 rc series of kernels which is usually just the development distributions. However the latest rawhide (Fedora development branch) has removed this module temporarily to workaround this problem till a proper fix is available. "* Tue Sep 23 2008 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Disable E1000E driver until bz 459202 is solved." Rahul -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
