Re: e1000e driver bug makes some net-installations fail.
Hello Jon,
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Jon Ander Ortiz <jonbaine@gmail.com> wrote:
...
> This bug is explaned here, basically the ethttool interface of the e1000e
> driver, returns "2" instead of "1" when the
> driver is asked about the link and the interface has link.
...
> The fix, can be done using a newer version of the installer, or patching the
> installer kernel with the fix, or providing
> a patched version of the netfg to the remote systems. This is a problem of
> a buggy driver, not of the d-i, but i think
> that it's interesting to make it public in this list, and more since many
> cards are being migrated from e1000 to e1000e driver
> (e.g. 82573L) and with a debian installer update the net installation
> fails.
Please report a bug against linux-2.6 source package and detail this
stuff there so people can work for including this fix in next stable
update.
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