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 <davidx.m.ertman@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue Mar 25 04:27:55 2014 +0000 e1000e: Fix no connectivity when driver loaded with cable out Sincerely, Joseph Salisbury -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html