OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards

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."

Comments

!Bricked

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Re:!Bricked

[clickety6]

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...

That's not what Bricked means!!!!oneone1

[OverlordQ]

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

Re:What is really happening regarding this problem

[Anonymous Coward]

This post was what to helpful and informative.

It doesn't belong in the comments of a Slashdot article!

Re:What is really happening regarding this problem

[pipatron]

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.