** Summary changed:
- e1000e causes intermittent freezes
+ [enhancement] e1000e should handle defective hardware more gracefully (causes
intermittent freezes)
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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
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 to
