Re: [E1000-devel] how to repair correupted EEPROM/NVM?

[Brandeburg, J. <jes...@in...>]

no, a bios update will either not change it at all or it will fix the
entire eeprom and reprogram the checksum.

You have contacted your laptop vendor and told them about this right?

I would try the bios upgrade. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pierre Ossman [mailto:drz...@dr...] 
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:16 PM
To: Brandeburg, Jesse
Cc: e10...@li...; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Allan, Bruce
W; Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; Ronciak, John; dav...@cs...
Subject: Re: how to repair correupted EEPROM/NVM?

Any verdict on this part?

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:46:01 +0200
Pierre Ossman <drz...@dr...> wrote:

> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:17:50 -0700
> "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jes...@in...> wrote:
> > >> If you happen to be using a LOM or
> > >> e1000e part that is integrated with a chipset like ich8/9 it is
> > >> likely one of the bios update(s) will upgrade/repair the eeprom
> > >> (since on those parts the eeprom is embedded as part of the BIOS
> > >> flash rom). 
> > > 
> > > This is a laptop, so it is most probably built in. But isn't the
MAC
> > > address stored in EEPROM? A BIOS image is not machine specific, so
I
> > > don't see how that would be able to fully restore the data.
> > 
> > depending on the laptop it might be a discreet part with discreet
> > eeprom, or it could be integrated.  I don't know because you never
> > mentioned what type of hardware you're using nor did you post an
lspci
> > -vvv
> > 
> 
> The machine is a Lenovo R61. lspci attached.
> 
> I could try a BIOS update. Any risk it might simply fix the checksum
> and make the device fall off the PCI bus (the same way it did for
> David)?
> 


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