[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1374747] Re: e1000e causes intermittent freezes

Okey so I tried to boot it in windows, and it would seem that the hardware is in fact broken - the leds at the ethernet port are always on, and it doesn't react when I'm plugging a cable into it. No freezes in windows though. The driver should probably handle the situation more gracefully, but for

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1374747] Re: [enhancement] e1000e should handle defective hardware more gracefully (causes intermittent freezes)

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[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1374747] [NEW] e1000e causes intermittent freezes

Public bug reported: When e1000e is loaded and the interface is up the systems freezes for about a ½ second every 4 seconds. I took special note of these lines in the dmesg output: [2.339056] e1000e :00:19.0 (unregistered net_device): Failed to initialize MSI interrupts. Falling back