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OpenSUSE Beta Can Brick Intel e1000e Network Cards

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. Oh great. by gandhi_2 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Remember when Dell told customers that installing Linux on their computers voided the warranty?

    Remember how everyone on /. called bullshit?

    This doesn't look good for our cause.

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    THL phish sticks
  2. Re:Badly written firmware. by jandrese · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Except for the multitude of cards that require you to basically reflash the firmware as part of the initialization? Cheap 802.11 cards are notorious for this, and it's a pain because it means you have to ship a binary blob with the driver and all of the licensing headaches that entails.

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    I read the internet for the articles.