e1000e bug - 32 bit, 64 bit or Both?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 13:59:00 -0400,
  Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 01:47:39PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> > I'm running 64-bit Linux (Fedora, C5, opensuse 11.0) on relevant  
> > hardware. I will _not_ try the opensuse beta (the docs suggest  
> > destruction is possible), and if I keep updating Fedora 10 alpha I  
> > suspect I will lose the Internet.
> 
> I tried F10 beta, and my ethernet card doesn't work because they 
> disabled the e1000e driver.  At least it didn't fry my NVRAM.
> 
> I wonder what kind of help I can provide seeing as I have the affected 
> hardware, but without actually ruining my card.

According to a comment in a koji update to the kernel today, the problem
has been fixed. I haven't yet seen that announcement anywhere out.
(Note this is supposed to be a real fix, not the work around previously
implemented to disable the driver.)