Just put up an announcement over on news.opensuse.org, about an issue with the Intel e1000e driver in the 11.1 beta 1:

The Intel e1000e driver on openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1 and SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1 might have a serious issue with the potential to damage the network card in a way that it cannot be used any longer.

Intel and Novell are currently working to analyze and solve the issue.

For the time being:

Please do NOT USE:

openSUSE 11.1 Beta 1
or
SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 Beta 1

on systems with Intel e1000e hardware.

Any other hardware, including systems with Intel e1000 (without -e) network cards, is not affected by this issue.

I hope that the number of afflicted systems is very small. If you’re using a system that does not use the e1000e driver, then you should be OK — but if you do happen to have that driver, please avoid 11.1 beta 1 for now.

As soon as we have a fix or solution, it will be posted on news.opensuse.org and opensuse-announce. Of course, I hope you’re already subscribed to and follow opensuse-announce and news.opensuse.org already…

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