Mandriva 2009 RC killing Intel e1000e Network Card

[David Batson]

Just a heads up.

 

It seems the e1000e driver in 2.6.27-rc can corrupt the eeprom of these cards,

killing the hardware. I guess this should be followed up here, so that we don't

release 2009.0 with this bug.

 

https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44147

[spinynorman]

Adam has blogged about it here.

 

The issue potentially affects all current Mandriva Linux 2009 pre-releases (earlier pre-releases came with a 2.6.26 kernel, but if you installed one and updated regularly, you would be automatically updated to a 2.6.27 kernel). It will not affect Mandriva Linux 2009 RC2, which will be released soon with a kernel that works around the issue.

 

RC2 is/was scheduled to be released today.