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Message-ID: <4D64158B.6010807@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:59:07 +0100 From: Maciej Kotliński <makotlinski@...il.com> To: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> CC: Karsten Keil <kkeil@...e.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: e1000e EEPROM corruption I found the way to run my network card without writing anything to EEPROM. I removed NVM and MAC address checks from e1000e driver source. The module loads fine. Ethernet adapter have MAC 00:00:00:00:00:00. Than I change MAC to correct one by ifconfig eth0 hw ether. Network works fine. I could even read correct data by ethtool -e. It makes the problem more strange. The correct EEPROM is there but... W dniu 22.02.2011 19:06, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh pisze: > 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. > -- 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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