I wanted to add that I found some more information at: http://www.intel.com/support/network/sb/cs-009209.htm ... I tried some of the modprobe settings suggested by intel, and none of them produced working results ... although it did change my dmesg output slightly. For example:
sudo rmmod e1000 sudo modprobe e1000 AutoNeg=0x020 [dmesg shows] [250502.329231] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:0e.0 disabled [250523.062823] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI [250523.062914] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. [250523.063131] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [250523.287477] e1000: 0000:00:0e.0: e1000_validate_option: AutoNeg advertising 1000/FD [250523.290910] e1000: 0000:00:0e.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:0e:0c:d9:ca:1f [250523.511879] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection [250548.054127] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready But I can't get eth0 to come back up and ethtool reports speed as "unknown" ... if I turn it back to the default, this is what I get ... sudo rmmod e1000 sudo modprobe e1000 [dmesg shows] [250564.744767] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:0e.0 disabled [250569.360567] Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.3.20-k2-NAPI [250569.360659] Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. [250569.360880] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0e.0[A] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 [250569.588495] e1000: 0000:00:0e.0: e1000_probe: (PCI:33MHz:32-bit) 00:0e:0c:d9:ca:1f [250569.808326] e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection [250569.836165] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [250578.464247] e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX [250578.467981] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready [250589.302760] eth0: no IPv6 routers present I'm not sure how else to troubleshoot this myself -- unless I find something more on the internet to guide me, I am be stuck! Thanks, Damon -- Intel Gibabit Ethernet NIC (82541PI) operating at 100Mbps instead of 1000Mbps after upgrading to Hardy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309211 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs