e1000e unstable on a new board

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 10/15/2009 09:35 PM, Michael Cronenworth 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?
>

False alarm (ugh). I reset the BIOS to defaults and it just installed 
F11 with updates turned on without a hitch. Go figure. There are no BIOS 
options for the network ports either.