From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754847Ab1BVSGY (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:06:24 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:39555 "EHLO out1.smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752174Ab1BVSGX (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2011 13:06:23 -0500 X-Sasl-enc: cEMyziiJ1ZMOeADq0c5xG1jF5ljgMlJQssHP8YsfGygv 1298397982 Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 15:06:11 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Maciej =?utf-8?Q?Kotli=C5=84ski?= Cc: Karsten Keil , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: e1000e EEPROM corruption Message-ID: <20110222180611.GA724@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <20081017135910.GA18206@pingi.kke.suse.de> <4D63CC34.6070807@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4D63CC34.6070807@gmail.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Maciej Kotliński wrote: > I had such problem few times earlier but it used to disappear after > few hours. Looks like a hardware issue to me. Cold/broken solders (reflowing the board could fix it), for example. > I have access to the same laptop, so I can get correct EPROM contents. > Still I don't know how to put this to my card. > > Could you tell me how to reprogram my card? That would only help if the problem is a "weak programming" of the EEPROM, which is something I have never seen before. Writing to it with flacky circuitry is probably going to crap it for good. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh