OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards

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OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 23, 2008 @01:23AM from the price-of-progress dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Some Intel cards don't just not work with the new OpenSUSE beta, they can get bricked as well. Check your hardware before you install!" The only card mentioned as affected is the Intel e1000e, and it's not just OpenSUSE for which this card is a problem, according to this short article: "Bug reports for Fedora 9 and 10 and Linux Kernel 2.6.27rc1 match the symptoms reported by SUSE users."

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!Bricked by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-23 01:30 · Score: 5, Funny

Why won't people stop using the word brick to mean things that aren't bricked! All you have to do is use a quasi-negative reverse transponder linked to your flux capacitor to generate an inverse tachyon field, connect it to the JTAG while chanting Siaynoq and it will come right up. Sheesh!
1. Re:!Bricked by clickety6 · 2008-09-23 03:13 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I also hate it when people call these things bricked incorrectly.
  Bricked XBOXen, bricked PSPs, bricked iPhones and now bricked network cards.
  People, these things are not bricked! Believe me. I've tried building houses and garden walls out of them and they are absolutely fecking useless as bricks!
  Please use the correct term in future. These items are not bricked, they are just FUBI (fecked up by incompetence)
  Thank you...
  
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That's not what Bricked means!!!!oneone1 by OverlordQ · 2008-09-23 01:36 · Score: 5, Funny

I hate it when people keep incorrectly using brick . . . . wait, what? They used it right? Oh . . . my bad, carry on.

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Re:What is really happening regarding this problem by Anonymous Coward · 2008-09-23 02:05 · Score: 3, Funny

This post was what to helpful and informative.
It doesn't belong in the comments of a Slashdot article!
I tried that, it doesn't work for long by davidwr · 2008-09-23 02:14 · Score: 2, Funny

Unfortunately, due to inferior materials used in the chip's casing, exposing the device to a sufficiently strong inverse tachyon field will cause protonium breakdown which will in turn cause an endothermic reaction, which in turn will fracture the silicon along the sharp drop-offs in the resulting thermal gradient. As a side-effect of the presence of the inverse tachyons, the failure will happen in the near future rather than immediately. In other words, your device will work on the testbench but by the time you put it into production then *crack* there it goes.

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Re:What is really happening regarding this problem by Alsee · 2008-09-23 02:30 · Score: 1, Funny

You should take their crayons away until they learn to stop scribbling everywhere.
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Re:What is really happening regarding this problem by pipatron · 2008-09-23 03:06 · Score: 5, Funny

This post was what to helpful and informative.
Good thing you set it straight again with a sentence that's both incomprehensible and contains a typo.

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