Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: yeah, running ibautil appears to pretty well kill many part's NVM. Ah, damn. I've been working a similar thread on the e1000-devel mailing list. The good news is that the LAN parts eeprom is part of the NVM/Flash on the motherboard, so it is at least possible

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
Chris Jones wrote: Hi Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: yeah, running ibautil appears to pretty well kill many part's NVM. Ah, damn. upon some follow up questions it appears that ibautil should only ever be run on Intel branded PCI/PCI-X/PCIe adapters that plug into a slot. It may have a bug which

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Jones
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

Re: [E1000-devel] 2.6.27 e1000e EEPROM corruption

2008-08-29 Thread Brandeburg, Jesse
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