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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 9836] New: e1000 network driver doesn't
 recognize (and load on) its hardware
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:44:04 -0800
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:32:00 -0800 (PST)
bugme-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote:

> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9836
> 
>            Summary: e1000 network driver doesn't recognize (and load on) its
>                     hardware
>            Product: Drivers
>            Version: 2.5
>      KernelVersion: 2.6.24
>           Platform: All
>         OS/Version: Linux
>               Tree: Mainline
>             Status: NEW
>           Severity: blocking
>           Priority: P1
>          Component: Network
>         AssignedTo: jgarzik@pobox.com
>         ReportedBy: t.artem@mailcity.com
> 
> 
> Latest working kernel version: not known
> Earliest failing kernel version: every
> Distribution: Fedora Core 7
> Hardware Environment: lspci output and dmesg information are attached
> Software Environment: doesn't matter
> Problem Description: recently e1000 network drivers stopped working when right
> after switching on or rebooting our Intel server. While trying to 'modprobe
> e1000; ifconfig eth0 IP_address' I've got a failure and e1000 says hardware is
> not detected. After about a *hundred* attempts to modprobe and rmmod it, the
> e1000 network driver finally loads and allows to set up networking.
> 
> Steps to reproduce: reboot or power on your server. Try to up the network which
> is attached to your Intel PCI-X Pro 1000 NIC.
> 

Odd.