Serious e1000e driver issue on Intrepid

[Tim Gardner]

Tim Gardner wrote:
> 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

Pursuant to discussions on this list, ongoing discussions in the bug
report (Bug #263555), and IRC chats with our release manager Steve
Langasek I've uploaded module-init-tools_3.3-pre11-4ubuntu10 to Intrepid
with a blacklist file for e1000e. Hopefully this is a temporary measure.

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