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From: Niel Lambrechts <niel.lambrechts@gmail.com>
To: "linux.kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: FYI: e1000e: corruption, Lenovo/IBM are replacing my MB.
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:21:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48E54978.8040209@devnull.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <biEx3-1ZX-17@gated-at.bofh.it>

On 10/03/2008 12:10 AM, Kok, Auke wrote:
> your mac address certainly still looks ok, and from quickly browsing this eeprom
> content certainly looks valid. (most eeproms indeed END in all 0xff bytes).

Thanks for clarifying that, I suspected it to be the case, but wanted
confirmation since it is a new company laptop :O

The first thing I did was to reboot in 2.6.25 and verify the ethernet -
it was fully functional via DHCP.

Also to me, the MAC address seems fine:
linux-7vph:/ # ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1C:25:95:93:EC
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Memory:fc200000-fc220000

(Right now, I'm using iwlagn, not ethernet)

> does the e1000e driver still load? do you get 'bad eeprom checksum' errors on boot?

Well it loads fine now, but this is after I have switched back to 2.6.26.5.

Too scared to try 2.6.27 again, but I definitely saw a boot message in
an asterisk surrounded block that said something about NVRAM checksum(?)...

>From some of the earlier posts I read that this bug surfaced on s2ram /
s2disk, not sure if there are other corruption "triggers".

Regards,
Niel

       reply	other threads:[~2008-10-02 22:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <biEdH-1q1-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <biEdH-1q1-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <biEx3-1ZX-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-10-02 22:21     ` Niel Lambrechts [this message]
     [not found] <biyi4-2jF-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-10-02 21:47 ` FYI: e1000e: corruption, Lenovo/IBM are replacing my MB Niel Lambrechts
2008-10-02 22:02   ` Kok, Auke
2008-10-02 15:03 Lee.Mathers

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