linux-kernel - Re: e1000e EEPROM corruption

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Message-ID: <20110222180611.GA724@khazad-dum.debian.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:06:11 -0300
From:	Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>
To:	Maciej Kotliński <makotlinski@...il.com>
Cc:	Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000e EEPROM corruption

On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Maciej Kotliński wrote:
> I had such problem few times earlier but it used to disappear after
> few hours.

Looks like a hardware issue to me. Cold/broken solders (reflowing the board
could fix it), for example.

> I have access to the same laptop, so I can get correct EPROM contents.
> Still I don't know how to put this to my card.
> 
> Could you tell me how to reprogram my card?

That would only help if the problem is a "weak programming" of the EEPROM,
which is something I have never seen before.  Writing to it with flacky
circuitry is probably going to crap it for good.

-- 
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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh
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