Please include this in 8.04.4.

Some internet providers only allow imaging for LTS releases. They also
sell Nehalem-based machines, which have the new igb driver for
networking, and they cannot be used. It looks like 8.04.3 backported an
igb driver but either it's not new enough, or the pciids are not up to
date.

This is extremely important, and should not be a big deal to fix.

I've attached a copy of dmesg, lspci -vnvn, and modinfo igb - all from a 
working 9.04 install on the machine. I have virtual media access and netboot, 
so I am able to install the non-LTS versions but all the configuration is 
manual and I do not get any of my ISP's automation benefits because of this.
uname -a = Linux abc123 2.6.28-14-server #47-Ubuntu SMP Sat Jul 25 02:03:55 UTC 
2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I think the driver just needs to be updated. Please consider this a high
priority, as Nehalems everywhere are unusable currently unless using
9.04 install media, which is not an option in many environments.
CentOS/RHEL/FreeBSD all work out of the box, but Ubuntu LTS does not.
This is not good for Intel if people are trying to use their brand new
Nehalem with Ubuntu LTS.

Note that the 9.04 kernel/driver version works just fine, if that makes
things any easier.

It *may* also help with this bug too:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xen-3.2/+bug/236268

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