Intel 82559 NIC corrupted EEPROM

[John <me@privacy.net>]

Hello,

I have an EBC-2000T motherboard with 3 on-board Intel 82559 NICs.

http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/lan/controllers/82559.htm
http://www.adlinktech.com/PD/web/PD_detail.php?pid=213
http://www.intel.com/support/network/adapter/1000/linux/e100.htm

Running a 2.6.14 kernel, the e100 driver refuses to load because
it detects a corrupted EEPROM.

cf. e100_eeprom_load()

   /* The checksum, stored in the last word, is calculated such that
    * the sum of words should be 0xBABA */
   checksum = le16_to_cpu(0xBABA - checksum);
   if(checksum != nic->eeprom[nic->eeprom_wc - 1]) {
         DPRINTK(PROBE, ERR, "EEPROM corrupted\n");
         if (!eeprom_bad_csum_allow)
                 return -EAGAIN;
   }

Several people have reported the same error. Intel's Auke Kok has
stated that ignoring the error is a BAD idea.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/10/215

What tool is used to reprogram the EEPROM? ethtool?
I suppose I'll have to ask the manufacturer for an updated EEPROM?


# ethtool -e eth0
Cannot get EEPROM data: Operation not supported

I'm not sure why I can't dump the contents of the EEPROM.
Does the driver need to be loaded?

On a totally unrelated note, does the 82559 support VLAN tagging?
(I believe the driver supports it.)

Thanks for reading this far.

Please note, email address is a bit-bucket.
I do monitor the mailing list.

Regards.

John

# lspci -vv
[...]
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 
100] (rev 08)
         Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100B (TX)
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
         Region 0: Memory at e5402000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         Region 1: I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
         Region 2: Memory at e5000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
         Expansion ROM at 20000000 [disabled] [size=1M]
         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 
100] (rev 08)
         Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100B (TX)
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 12
         Region 0: Memory at e5401000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         Region 1: I/O ports at dc00 [size=64]
         Region 2: Memory at e5100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
         Expansion ROM at 20100000 [disabled] [size=1M]
         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 
100] (rev 08)
         Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100B (TX)
         Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- 
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
         Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium 
 >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
         Latency: 32 (2000ns min, 14000ns max), cache line size 08
         Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
         Region 0: Memory at e5400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         Region 1: I/O ports at e000 [size=64]
         Region 2: Memory at e5200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
         Expansion ROM at 20200000 [disabled] [size=1M]
         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
                 Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA 
PME(D0+,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                 Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=2 PME-