Bug#485784: upgrade-reports: Problem with Intel Gigabit NIC after doing apt-get dist-upgrade

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 02:49:50PM +0200, Magnus Brange wrote:
> Package: upgrade-reports
> Severity: normal
> 
> I have an Intel PRO/1000 GT Desktop Gbit adapter NIC on this machine, and it was operating in 1000mbit after the installation of
> debian 4.0 r3, but when I did an apt-get dist-upgrade it steped down to 100mbit.
> I have tryed to do 'ethtool -s eth1 speed 1000 duplex full' and 'ethtool -s eth1 advertise 1000baseT/Full', but it wont work at 1000mbit anymore.
> I had the same problem before, but I was hopping that it would help to install a fresh version of debian, but well, it didnt.

Does that problem still persist?  

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r:
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz