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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:28:08 -0800 From: thockin@...kin.org To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Cc: John <me@...vacy.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux.nics@...el.com Subject: Re: Intel 82559 NIC corrupted EEPROM On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:22:51PM -0800, thockin@...kin.org wrote: > On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 05:46:25PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Basically, Auke wants you to throw away your NIC and/or motherboard. > > Since you're effectively dead, the only damage you can do by disabling > > the check has already been done. This unfortunately seems to be fairly > > common with e100, especially for the on-motherboard version, and you > > basically have two options: either disable the check or write an offline > > tool to reprogram the EEPROM. > > I have a tool to write the eepro100 EEPROM. Let me see if I can find it. > It even had all the default data coded, ready to restore a NIC to default. > > However - back in the eepro100.c days, it was considered a warning only if > the EEPROM had a bad checksum. There were two "supported" formats for the > EEPROM, one of which was just the MAC address. And it worked! One from the vaults: http://www.hockin.org/~thockin/enet_eeprom/ It's pretty simple, but easily hacked. ifdown your interface first! :) Tim - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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