Comment 290 for bug 263555

(In reply to comment #57 from Stefan Seyfried)
> It is, unfortunately, not that easy. I have rebooted my machine (hp 2510p) with
> e1000e 17 times since Sep 15 with 2.6.27-rc5-git9+ Kernels (always pretty
> recent STABLE) and I did not encounter any problems.
> So it is pretty hard to prove the absence of this bug.

And did this machine expose the problem at least once previously? Apparently not all systems having e1000e hardware are being hit by the issue, either only specific product IDs are affected, or it might be chipset-dependent, etc.

Also, please do not forget to back up contents of your EEPROM before you start playing with this :)