[arch-general] e1000e 2.6.30.1 kernel massive packet loss

[Dan McGee]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Caleb Cushing<xenoterracide at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Thomas Bächler<thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>> You can try booting with the nomsi kernel option. If that helps (and if it
>> doesn't), can you please open an upstream bug report?
>
> out of curiousity since I downgraded using pacman -U ... would my
> fallback kernel be 2.6.30.1 or? I'm not sure how fallback creation
> works. also since MSI is normally enabled, isn't disabling it kind of
> off for telling if those changes are the cause of the problem?

Arch doesn't have a fallback kernel. It only has a fallback initrd
which doesn't attempt to keep things out that shouldn't be needed in a
normal startup.

-Dan