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

[Daniel Stoyanov]

All this is just crazy!

I'm testing Intrepid since Alpha 3, I have done testing on all Ubuntu
releases at very early stage (Alpha 2) starting from 6.10. I'm not
developer myself and the only way I can help improve Ubuntu is to test
and submit bugs.  I assume that I can loose some data and on regular
basis I won't be very productive on the testing machine, I'm ok with
that. BUT damage my hardware is something different, my machine costs ~
2500 $ (ThinkPad T61p). I just upgraded the kernel this morning via
synaptic, sometimes I don't even bother to check what's upgrading,
because I ASSUME that Alphas can  damage my data (which is backed up
daily). When I submited a bug (duplicate of this one) this morning I saw
the danger. I'm currently on Intrepid with the old kernel (2.6.27-3),
and luckily my ethernet adapter is running well.

I'm sorry to say that but I think this will be the last time I'll run
Ubuntu Alpha on my machine. I'm willing to help, but I have to be 100%
sure that Ubuntu developers have very CLEAR policy on what will be
pushed in the repositories for testing.

Regards,
Daniel

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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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