On Wed, 2008-09-24 at 12:02 +0100, James Westby wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just posting this as I'm interested in how any other 2.6.27 using > distributions are handling the e1000e bug. > > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382 > > I saw that openSUSE put out a warning to their users about the > issue > > http://lwn.net/Articles/299787/ > > have other distributions done the same? I haven't seen any announcements in Fedora, but the module did get removed from our Kernels as of today's rawhide build.
* Tue Sep 23 2008 Dave Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Disable E1000E driver until bz 459202 is solved. Looks like our tracking bug is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459202 > > Ubuntu has also put out a warning at > > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-September/000488.html > > and has also blacklisted the module until a fix can be found. While this > will leave some users without network upon upgrade we hope that they > will be understanding as not doing this could potentially break their > networking in a much more serious way. > > Lastly previous bug reports were searched for mentions of e1000e or the > specific chipsets in things like lspci output, and those users were contacted > directly warning them about the issue. > > Thanks, > > James > > _______________________________________________ > Distributions mailing list > Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions > -- Nigel Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list Distributions@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
