Serious e1000e driver issue on Intrepid

[Tim Gardner]

Folks,

There are beginning to be an increasing number of reports regarding a
serious regression in Intrepid with regard to the e1000e ethernet driver
wherein it can be rendered permanently inoperable. The original Bugzilla
report is here:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382

SuSE has also made an announcement regarding this issue:

http://news.opensuse.org/2008/09/22/serious-e1000e-driver-issue-in-sle-11-beta-1-and-opensuse-111-beta-1

Given the severity of this issue, I'm inclined to blacklist the driver
by default in modutils until such time as Intel develops a fix.

How do we inform users when their ethernet suddenly stops working after
an update?

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com