Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Nov 2006 22:28:08 -0800 | From | thockin@hockin ... | Subject | Re: Intel 82559 NIC corrupted EEPROM |
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On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:22:51PM -0800, thockin@hockin.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! :)
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