Looks like there are other bugs filed elsewhere on the net about E1000 not loading with the 2.6.27 kernel.
Here's a curious note from https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/275611 ============= If I remove the line of the card in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and boot with kernel 2.6.27-4, nothing happens, it's like the card does not exist. If I modprobe e1000, and try to bring up manually eth0: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found If I boot back in kernel 2.6.27-3, everything works fine, /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules is correctly configured, and so on. ============= Sounds like something's up. I will try to configure my 2.6.27 using menuconfig, but why do I get the sense that I'll just waste time doing that and end up at square one?
