t400 lenovo - is intrepid dangerous?

[Amit Kucheria]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:19 AM, Paul Gupta <paul at guptaxpn.com> wrote:
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> I'm highly interested in purchasing this laptop, is this a "safe"
> purchase in terms of lots of money going into a machine.  The linux
> laptop sites have not as of yet been well updated, nor has the thinkwiki
> article...

The e1000e driver will be disabled by default in Intrepid betas until
a fix is found for the problem. It is safe for you to buy the laptop
keeping in mind that ethernet won't work until a fix is found.

Upstream and Intel are working to find a fix.