Comment 29 for bug 263555

One alpha tester has already been lost, at least partially. When the problem occurred I sucked it up and said to myself, you know, it is alpha. Things like this shouldn't happen, but they do from time to time. Now that I see the indifference of Ubuntu devs to people losing their hardware, and even worse, to the extreme likelihood of more people losing theirs because of a stupidly strict adherence to release schedules, I'll never test an alpha outside of a virtual machine again (your loss, not mine). I'm not sure yet, but I may be through with Ubuntu, period.

You should pull all the current alphas, and quickly release an alpha 7 with the e1000e module removed or an older kernel. It's the only reasonable thing to do. Pulling the alphas and waiting for a fix will cause too many delays, but leaving up the current alphas is just plain immoral.