From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Auke Kok Subject: Re: e1000 fails to load sometimes: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:59:39 -0700 Message-ID: <44B6B43B.6000005@intel.com> References: <44B69545.8000507@intel.com> <44B6B14A.3020001@goop.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: profilek@users.sourceforge.net, squat@users.sourceforge.net, NetDev , Jesse Brandeburg , "Ronciak, John" Return-path: Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:36156 "EHLO fmsmga101-1.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030388AbWGMVAf (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:00:35 -0400 To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge In-Reply-To: <44B6B14A.3020001@goop.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > Auke Kok wrote: >> Sorry for the long wait, there's some new information on this that >> just this morning arrived. > Thanks for the update. > >> The latest EEPROM's from Lenovo (obtainable from their websites as >> .iso) seem to have this feature turned off, which resolves the issue. > > Do you have a specific link to this update? I can't see anything > obvious on their site relating to this. See: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-63027 links to the latest .iso image. Note: I haven't tried the 1.07 update myself. I had to *downgrade* our test system to actually expose the bug. Cheers, Auke