[ltp] Networking T61 on Intrepid x86_64

[Philippe Clérié]

The latest version of the Ubuntu kernel has re-enabled the e1000e 
driver.

Philippe

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The trouble with common sense is that it is so uncommon.
<Anonymous>


On Monday 13 October 2008 14:20:26 Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun, 2008-10-13 at 11:17 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > The ethernet also failed to work. There is a new GUI for network
> > manager, but it did not even display the adapter. However, lspci
> > did detect it, it just failed to install whatever driver it needed.
> > This is surprising - over the past couple of years that I have
> > owned this computer I have occasionally tried other distros (live
> > CDs only) and the ethernet has always "just worked."
>
> Your T61 uses e1000e driver which has been disabled in Intrepid
> because of problems with it erasing the EEPROM of the card in some
> weird cases. This has been fixed in the driver but maybe not
> propagated in ubuntu.
>
> There are tons of stuff onTh that on the net, look for “linux e10=
00e
> eeprom” or something like that.
>
> Cheers,