● 09.23.08

●● SUSE Toasts Hardware (Updated)

Posted in GNU/Linux, Hardware, SLES/SLED at 7:29 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Fried lizards for dinner?

This is bad, no matter the stage of development.

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The Intel e1000e driver on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 might have a serious issue with the potential to damage the network card in a way that it cannot be used any longer.

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Intel and Novell are currently working to analyze and solve the issue.

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It’s a severe issue — severe enough for Zonker to just quote verbatim in his blog. Maybe Novell should issue a press release about it [sarcasm /]. Sort of, like… to warn customers using SLES beta on live servers.

It does not say anywhere whether the issue may be distro specific, buy it could be related to the kernel (possibly Intel’s fault). Either way, there’s this comment:

“Btw, this seems to be an upstream problem, so users of latest kernel snapshots should be carefull as well on their systems …”

Also:

“Have you any idea how retarded this request is for anything with an SLE prefix? C’mon guys, get with the programme. Jeez, blow up HW with a SW upgrade, what is this, a TRS-80 retrospective?” █

Update: Alex Hudson tells us that it’s a kernel bug.

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