{"id":5346,"date":"2008-09-25T09:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T07:50:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-25T09:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-25T07:50:00","slug":"linux-bug-downs-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/5346-linux-bug-downs-hardware.html","title":{"rendered":"Linux bug downs hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A serious bug in the 2.6.27 Linux kernel is wreaking havoc in the Linux world with most major Linux distributors scrambling to issue warnings and fixes for the problem. <\/p>\n<p>The kernel bug affects Intel&#8217;s e1000e onboard network interface and is widely reported to corrupt the EEPROM of the adapter, effectively breaking it. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the major Linux distributors have either announced the problem to users or put in place processes to blacklist the module until a fix is found.<\/p>\n<p>OpenSuse is warning users with this hardware to avoid its OpenSuse 11.1 beta 1 release which has the 2.6.27 kernel. <\/p>\n<p>Mandriva also issued a warning for its Mandriva 2009 pre-releases and has held back the release of its latest version to resolve the issue. <\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu also said that it had blacklisted the module until a fix was found. <\/p>\n<p>Intel has a support page (<a href=\"http:\/\/support.intel.com\/support\/network\/sb\/cs-008441.htm\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/support.intel.com\/support\/network\/sb\/cs-008441.htm<\/a>) to help users&nbsp; the details of their network adapters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=137163\"><strong>Linux discussion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A serious Linux kernel bug is known to break certain Intel hardware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}