You are going to need to clarify some things since as far as I know weSorry that my description was so inaccurate. I'm talking about a vanilla v3.0.8 linux kernel. Just renamed to 2.6.40.8.
never released a v3.0.8 driver, and the kernel in the bug below is a
version 2.6.40.8 which sounds more like a modified and possibly
backported Linux kernel since as far as I know Linus never released a
2.6.40 kernel version.
In order to be able to assist you we will need some additionalLinux Distri is Debian Lenny but we're running a self compiled vanilla 3.0.X kernel. I haven't tried to use the up2date e1000.sf.net driver as 3.0 is a long time supported kernel by greg - so all needed fixes should be backported or at least send to stable@ so that greg can have a look at them.
information. What Linux distro are your running? Do you have the
latest updates from them? Also have you tried running the latest
out-of-tree driver we provide at e1000.sf.net in order to verify if the
same issue occurs with that driver?