Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:21:44 +0200 | Subject | Re: FYI: e1000e: corruption, Lenovo/IBM are replacing my MB. | From | Niel Lambrechts <> |
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On 10/03/2008 12:10 AM, Kok, Auke wrote: > your mac address certainly still looks ok, and from quickly browsing this eeprom > content certainly looks valid. (most eeproms indeed END in all 0xff bytes).
Thanks for clarifying that, I suspected it to be the case, but wanted confirmation since it is a new company laptop :O
The first thing I did was to reboot in 2.6.25 and verify the ethernet - it was fully functional via DHCP.
Also to me, the MAC address seems fine: linux-7vph:/ # ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1C:25:95:93:EC BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Memory:fc200000-fc220000
(Right now, I'm using iwlagn, not ethernet)
> does the e1000e driver still load? do you get 'bad eeprom checksum' errors on boot?
Well it loads fine now, but this is after I have switched back to 2.6.26.5.
Too scared to try 2.6.27 again, but I definitely saw a boot message in an asterisk surrounded block that said something about NVRAM checksum(?)...
From some of the earlier posts I read that this bug surfaced on s2ram / s2disk, not sure if there are other corruption "triggers".
Regards, Niel
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