Important for users of certain Intel Ether ... ... http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=Njc0NwFrom what I can see, it appears the release cand ...

Seablade · 09-25-2008, 10:17 AM

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...item&px=Njc0Nw

From what I can see, it appears the release candidates for 2.6.27 had a very serious bug that would corrupt the firmware on the ethernet driver. This will only affect you if you used those release candidates, which isn't to many folks I would imagine, however there are specific betas of distributions that will be affected. This is of course why betas and RCs exist, to catch these before they become wide spread so the process works, but to be certain, if you have an affected chip do not use these betas and RCs.

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A list of possible affected devicesbased off what that module supports, taken from hardware4linux.info:

1. Intel / 82566DC Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (4.4 x 14)
2. Intel / 82801I (ICH9 Family) Gigabit Ethernet Controller [Ethernet controller] (3.0 x 5)
3. Intel / 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (4.3 x 3)
4. Dell (by Intel) / 82801I (ICH9 Family) Gigabit Ethernet Controller [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 2)
5. Hewlett-Packard (by Intel) / 82566DM-2 Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 1)
6. Super Micro Computer (by Intel) / 80003ES2LAN Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 3)
7. Dell (by Intel) / 82562V-2 10/100 Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (4.0 x 2)
8. Foxconn International (by Intel) / 82566DM Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 1)
9. Lenovo (by Intel) / Lenovo Thinkpad T61 [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 10)
10. Hewlett-Packard (by Intel) / 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 2)
11. Toshiba America Info Systems (by Intel) / 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 5)
12. Acer [ALI] (by Intel) / 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection [Ethernet controller] (5.0 x 1)

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Seablade · 09-25-2008, 10:18 AM

Gonna stick this for a while, will likely remove sometime after 2.6.29 or 2.6.30 comes out. By that point I think any danger of this will have passed.

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Seablade · 06-10-2009, 08:25 AM

Unstickying it now that 2.6.30 has hit. Hopefuly by now anyone building this kernel themselves will be utilizing a newer one and this won't be an issue, and the distributions by now should have already fixed this.

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shipra · 09-15-2009, 05:38 AM

Good information Seablade.

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09-25-2008, 10:18 AM	#2
Seablade Dont Ask Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Somewhere in the US Posts: 3,592 Credits: 51,115	Gonna stick this for a while, will likely remove sometime after 2.6.29 or 2.6.30 comes out. By that point I think any danger of this will have passed. Seablade

06-10-2009, 08:25 AM	#3
Seablade Dont Ask Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Somewhere in the US Posts: 3,592 Credits: 51,115	Unstickying it now that 2.6.30 has hit. Hopefuly by now anyone building this kernel themselves will be utilizing a newer one and this won't be an issue, and the distributions by now should have already fixed this. Seablade

09-15-2009, 05:38 AM	#4
shipra Registered User Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 2 Credits: 221	Good information Seablade.