preupgrade driverlist misses e1000e

[Henk Breimer]

On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:12:48 +0100
Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:

> Henk Breimer wrote:
> > Trying to use preupgrade. after reboot preupgrade complained that it
> > could not find a driver.
> > It presented an enormous list of drivers.
> > My intel mb likes the e1000e driver, but only e100 and e1000 were
> > available.
> > Does a solution exist for this problem?
> >   
> 
> That could be 
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F10_bugs#Intel_Gigabit_Support_Disabled
> 
> It was tracked on https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459202
> and should have been fixed in recent kernel versions with
>
This shows modified:history  2008-11-04
 
> * Thu Oct 02 2008 Kyle McMartin <kyle at redhat.com>
> - Linux 2.6.27-rc8-git3
> - Re-enable e1000e driver, corruption prevention fix is upstream
> 
> 
> What version are you on? Which kernel version do you get after
> reboot? Have you tried the newest rawhide?
> 
I use a flly updated F9;    lsmod |grep e1000 shows e1000e
So it seems that the driver is available in my system.
Preupgrade does not pick it up for some reason.
Maybe the maintainer did not know the problem has become history?

thanks
Henk