Hi,
I packaged a few of Intel's out of tree NIC drivers from http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ as dkms based .debs and included them in a custom grml image.
I'll explain how; if there is interest, I can also share my packages (although, as you'll see, they're likely sub-par, because I did not take the time to really understand what I was doing; in particular, I fear the e1000e module may not always build correctly at grml-live time, while it builds