Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:46:12 +0100 | From | Maciej Kotliński <> | Subject | Re: e1000e EEPROM corruption |
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Hi,
The thread on the list is quite old, but I think I have the same problem problem on Toshiba Tecra M5 laptop with 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller runling Linux 2.6.38-rc5. I can see this: e1000e 0000:02:00.0: (unregistered net_device): The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid when I try to load e1000e module. Ethernet controller is visible in lspci output.
I had such problem few times earlier but it used to disappear after few hours. Now the network card don't like to work from two days.
When I try to remove NVM check from the driver code the driver says: (unregistered net_device): Invalid MAC Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 So I assume that there are zeros in EPROM of my network adapter. I can not use ethtool to read or write EPROM of my card because there is no eth0 device. 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?
Regards,
Maciek
W dniu 17.10.2008 15:59, Karsten Keil pisze: > Hi, > > so after this ugly bug is finally fixed, here maybe left some victims of > this bug. > > If here is still sombody who need help to recover from this issue, > > I can probably help him, I successful recovered all machines on our side, > even one which do not longer show the NIC via lspci, so the only restiction > is, that the machine still boots and we have a NVM image of a similar > machine. > You should know the PCI ids of the NIC from the time before it crashed and > the MAC address. >
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