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

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

Pierre Ossman wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:20:03 -0700
> "Brandeburg, Jesse" <jes...@in...> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> hm, this article points to the ibautil program which can restore your
>> eeprom, I didn't know we had this available (and I'm not sure if it
>> will work on your hardware)  This tool is from my group, as is the
>> eeupdate program, but I'm not sure you should trust the
>> ftp.extensa.ru site.  If you download that eeupdate tool be sure to
>> check it for viruses/malware. 
>> 
> 
> I tried loading the driver when the hardware had link, but that did
> jack all. Then I tried the ibautil, which caused the device to fall of
> the PCI bus...
> 
> I take I'm royally screwed at this point?

a couple more things, device 0:19.0 doesn't show up in lspci any more?

I also was just informed that lenovo typically has a 4MB flash and that
some bios updates might not have the LAN portion of the flash included
in the update.

also, what specific model number of R61 do you have?  I have just found
out there are iAMT enabled versions and non-iAMT versions of the same
laptop.

Jesse