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.
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.