e1000e unstable on a new board

[Kam Leo]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com> wrote:
> I've got a new Supermicro X8SIL-F mobo that has two onboard Intel 82574L
> gigabit ports. After about 1 to 10 minutes of usage, the network ports stop
> working. ifconfig reports billions of errors and continues to rack them up.
> I have to reboot the system to get networking back. This repeats and I have
> to reboot again. I updated the kernel to 2.6.30.8 but it still happens.
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Michael

I may have the facts all screwed up; however, I seem to recall reading
about a firmware issue with the Intel gigabit devices. See if there's
a BIOS update.