[Bug 263555] Re: [intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk

[Fahim Abdun-Nur]

Came in to work this morning and updated my intrepid system, noticed a
new kernel and had to update. When the system came back up, eth0
disappeared. Now I have no network connection at all. :( Did an lspci,
and I have an Intel 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection (rev 02)

I'm guessing (and I'll admit I'm a *nix novice) that this is due to the
e1000e driver being disabled and eth0 never being loaded. An ifconfig
returns nothing other than lo. Booting into Windows XP seems a-OK and I
have full network access (haha, haven't booted into XP in quite a while
and was prompted to update a gazillion Win-updates...anyways, I
digress).

This was marked "fixed" (?) last night; seems to have caused me more
trouble. Any ideas/recommendations? If and when a fix is released, I
guess I'll have to copy over and install the debs on a usb stick. Oh
well, it is alpha after all.

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linux (2.6.27-4.6) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Tim Gardner ]

  * Disable e1000e until the NVRAM corruption problem is found.
    - LP: #263555
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[intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555
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