Bug#497392: e1000e driver does not initialize correctly

[Jérôme Avond <j.avond@axolys.fr>]

I can confirm the same behaviour on 6 Dell's desktop computer, with
Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection Ethernet card
embeded in the motherboard.

First we thougth it was because of wires or old-switch, but now
everythings fine, we reproduce the sames problems :
- dhcp doesn't bring up, with tcpdump silent
- modprobe e1000e/ -r e1000e make it works
- plug / unplug card/or/switch/or/power of switch

$ sudo lspci | grep 8256
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82562V-2 10/100 Network
Connection (rev 02)
$ sudo lsmod |grep e1
e1000e                 84612  0 
$ sudo cat /etc/issue
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 \n \l
$ uname -a
Linux formaxo2 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux
$ sudo modinfo e1000e
filename:       /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko
version:        0.3.3.3-k2
license:        GPL
description:    Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver
author:         Intel Corporation, <linux.nics@intel.com>
srcversion:     91473E7675870049C25134A
...
$ sudo aptitude search ~i~n"^linux"
i A linux-headers-2.6-486                            - Header files for
Linux 2.6-486                            
i A linux-headers-2.6.26-2-486                       - Header files for
Linux 2.6.26-2-486                       
i   linux-headers-2.6.26-2-686                       - Header files for
Linux 2.6.26-2-686                       
i A linux-headers-2.6.26-2-common                    - Common header
files for Linux 2.6.26-2                    
i   linux-image-2.6-686                              - image du noyau
Linux version 2.6 pour PPro/Celeron/PII/PII
i A linux-image-2.6.26-2-486                         - Linux 2.6.26
image on x86                                 
i A linux-image-2.6.26-2-686                         - Linux 2.6.26
image on PPro/Celeron/PII/PIII/P4            
i A linux-kbuild-2.6.26                              - Kbuild
infrastructure for Linux 2.6.26                    
i A linux-libc-dev                                   - Linux support
headers for userspace development           
i A linux-sound-base                                 - Paquet de base
pour les systèmes de son ALSA et OSS
...
$ ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111371 fév 10
13:25 /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-486/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112627 fév 10
13:26 /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/e1000e/e1000e.ko

-- 
Jérôme Avond <j.avond@axolys.fr>
Axolys, Société de services en logiciels libres