Re: e1000e EEPROM corruption

[Maciej KotliÅski]

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 KotliÅski 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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