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 fo
First, thanks for replying with the data I asked for.
Nothing immediately pops out below.
I think that (and we've seen similar problems before) you might have a
power supply that is going bad or that your motherboard is not able to
supply enough power for all the lan ports.
sometimes when you get
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 sp
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
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
Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:20:03 -0700
> "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> hm, this article points to the ibautil program which can restore your
>> eeprom, I didn't know we had this available (and I'm not sure if it
>> will work on your hardware) This tool
Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:20:03 -0700
> "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> hm, this article points to the ibautil program which can restore your
>> eeprom, I didn't know we had this available (and I'm not sure if it
>> will work on your hardware) This tool
Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:05:15 -0700
> Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm concerned that you're actually having some other driver problem
>> that isn't getting reported, like a wierd semaphore issue or
>> something. can you build the e1000e-0.4.1.7.tar.gz
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 11:13 +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> > "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > You have contacted your laptop vendor and told them about this right?
> > >
> >
> > I've tried, but they're currently giving me the whole "have you checked
> > the cable" runaroun
