Pierre Ossman wrote: > I've just noticed that the e1000e has delightfully made poo poo all > over my EEPROM (something David Vrabel also has reported). Shit > happens and all that I guess, but how do I get the thing back in a > working order? Couldn't find anything useful on the interwebs...
were you testing eeprom writes? We don't recommend changing your eeprom except in extreme cases. We don't have publically available tools to fix eeproms due to the design specific changes that are made to each eeprom. if you saved a dump of your eeprom before you started writing to it, you can program each byte back into place using ethtool (if the device shows up) otherwise if the device is not showing up in lspci, you would need to physically replace the eeprom to fix the issue, which in your case may mean an adapter replacement. If you happen to be using a LOM or e1000e part that is integrated with a chipset like ich8/9 it is likely one of the bios update(s) will upgrade/repair the eeprom (since on those parts the eeprom is embedded as part of the BIOS flash rom). If you have an Intel Field Sales Engineer supporting you, you can contact them under NDA for a tool to help fix your issue with a "close enough" eeprom image. Otherwise you can try Intel support if your NIC is an Intel supported device. Jesse ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
