There's no reason to be hysterical, but a re-spin of Alpha 6 CDs without the e1000e module may be called for. This is a separate bug, but the recommended workaround of adding "blacklist e1000e" in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist doesn't work. Somehow, udev or some other thing manages to load it anyway. I had to unlink it.
There's no reason to be hysterical, but a re-spin of Alpha 6 CDs without the e1000e module may be called for. This is a separate bug, but the recommended workaround of adding "blacklist e1000e" in /etc/modprobe. d/blacklist doesn't work. Somehow, udev or some other thing manages to load it anyway. I had to unlink it.