Re: [Bug #11382] e1000e: 2.6.27-rc1 corrupts EEPROM/NVM

From: Parag Warudkar
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 18:55:10 EST


On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Actually another user has just reported [1] that his e1000e card got
> screwed up exactly at the point when the installer was probing the X
> configuration. So this really seems a lot like some lethal interaction
> between intel graphics and the network card.
>

Another data point in the support of this theory - I've been running
all various 2.6.27-rc releases (including rc7) on my HP machine which
has an embedded 82566 and Radeon x1650 graphics - and so far I have
not seen any problems.

Parag
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