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e1000 driver update

Bug #191695 reported by rvjcallanan

This bug report was converted into a question: question #25681: e1000 driver update.

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Bug Description

The newly announced 7.6.15.4 release of the Intel e1000 driver contains a number of important fixes.

One of these fixes pertains to the problem described in the following link:

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=447449&aid=1852291&group_id=42302

Is it possible to update the stock e1000 driver in the Dapper package repository?

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Felipe Venegas (fvenegas) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report and subsequently we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at [WWW] https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see [WWW] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

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rvjcallanan (vincent-callanan) wrote :

Felipe, let me be clear on this.

I first noticed this *bug* (and that is indeed what it was) in my Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Server Edition installation.
Rather than report it to Ubuntu, I tried building the latest revision of the e1000 driver to see would this cure it.

As it did not, I took the trouble of collaborating directly with the e1000 driver people on SourceForge and we eventually identified the problem and found a fix....after many long hours of effort, I might add.

As of now, Ubuntu has a serious bug in the stock Dapper e1000 driver. When I say serious, I am not being flippant. This bug was assigned high priority by the e1000 driver team and there is good reason to believe that the fix will solve many other issues apart from mine.

Forgive me for my ignorance, but are you saying that:

A stock driver bug should *not* be reported on the Ubuntu bug tracking system?
In other words, Ubuntu does not want to know about it.

     or

A bug, for which a fix has been found, should *not* be reported on the Ubuntu bug tracking system?
In other words, Ubuntu will somehow automatically update its stock driver.

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