Chris Jones wrote: > Hi > > Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: >> Yes, not all bioses will upgrade the NVM for the lan. Chances are >> good that if the file size is larger it will upgrade more of the NVM, >> hopefully upgrading the LAN NVM as well (check the release notes) > > None of the release notes for it mention the network chip > specifically. > The changelog is at: > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&; lndocid=MIGR-69539 > >> Telling us anything that you might have done which could help us >> reproduce this would be appreciated. > > The timeline is something like this:
Thanks for the detailed timeline, I will try to be looking into this or coordinating my team looking into this next Tuesday. As of this point working with Lenovo to get your machine repaired or getting them to give you an app to restore the LAN eeprom is the only way forward. Even if we figure out what is going wrong and reproduce it I don't think I can directly help you get your LAN part to show back up. Somehow you have to get your system NVM (aka flash bios) to get a correct setup, and the only people that have that is Lenovo, since their design is specific. Did you try running IBM's diagnostics programs? They have PC-Doctor bootable CDs but I don't know what they get up to. I sure hope this isn't something new to 2.6.27 (kernel feature, ick) We may need to start talking to LKML soon to make sure this is tracked at that level in case it is a kernel problem of some kind. 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
