Hello,
Please consider including mainline commit b20a774 in the next v3.13.y
stable release. It was included in the mainline tree as of v3.15-rc1.
It has been tested and confirmed to resolve
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1400365 .
commit b20a774495671f037e7160ea2ce8789af6b61533
Author: David Ertman <[email protected]>
Date: Tue Mar 25 04:27:55 2014 +0000
e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out
Sincerely,
Joseph Salisbury