Comment 42 for bug 263555

Nothing happend to me either. Probably it depends on the system bios / firmware. My Vaio Z does not have an ordinary BIOS, but a new (U)EFI firmware with bios emulation. Probably the emulation denies access (to some parts) of the NVRAM!? Just to make sure, blacklisted and removed e1000e.

Please note: I'm not using Ubuntu Intrepid, but only it's 2.6.27-3 kernel package and the new xorg packages. Ethernet was used only once for traffic. Driver was loaded every system start and card was recognized. The only time I realy used the ethernet port, I had to reload the driver manually as network cable wasn't recognized. After having reloaded the driver everything worked fine.