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:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 3:16 PM To: Brandeburg, Jesse Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Allan, Bruce W; Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P; Ronciak, John; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to repair correupted EEPROM/NVM? Any verdict on this part? On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:46:01 +0200 Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:17:50 -0700 > "Brandeburg, Jesse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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)? > -- -- Pierre Ossman Linux kernel, MMC maintainer http://www.kernel.org rdesktop, core developer http://www.rdesktop.org WARNING: This correspondence is being monitored by the Swedish government. Make sure your server uses encryption for SMTP traffic and consider using PGP for end-to-end encryption. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
