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Problem with Intel e1000e driver & SuSE 11.1 ...

Story: openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 Available for TestingTotal Replies: 2
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TxtEdMacs

Sep 23, 2008
9:52 AM EDT 		Stay away if you are using the Intel e1000 video card* (for now). Can permanently damage the card.

Notice appeared yesterday on lwn.net.

* Intel cards not having the "e" are supposed to be safe.
herzeleid

Sep 23, 2008
8:15 PM EDT 		It's apparently a problem with ubuntu and fedora test releases as well -

mmelchert

Sep 24, 2008
1:20 AM EDT 		via a slashdot thread: >> From: Christopher Li >> Andrey reports e1000 corruption, and that a patch in vmware's ESX fixed it. >> The EEPROM corruption is triggered by concurrent access of the EEPROM read/write. >> Putting a lock around it solve the problem.

http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/08/09/23/133258.shtml

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2...

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