On 10/9/07, Mike Tancsa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:37 AM 10/9/2007, Jack Vogel wrote: > > > Thanks, > > > I did find this reference > > > http://www.higherorder.com.au/2007/6/25/intel_82573_patch > > > > > > Is there a way from FreeBSD to tell remotely if its needed ? > > > >Well, there would be a way, reading the MANC register and > >seeing if the suspect bit is present, but am not sure if there > >is some important point at which the thing gets misprogrammed, > >its just best to use the patcher, its harmless if its not needed. > > > >Sorry, I realize its a hassle to boot to that wonder DOS :) > > > OK, did some tests on local PM nics here at the office. On one nic > (same model as what is causing us problems in the field) we can run > the program over and over again, and it always exits with a zero > value. Is this normal ? On another NIC that we recently bought, it > exits with a 1 which supposedly says "not needed". How do we know > that the update has taken ? Is there any danger of it losing its > reprogramming ? In short, how do we verify it "worked" > > The version I am using is > > lava# ls -l dcgdis.exe > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 160029 Oct 4 2005 dcgdis.exe > lava# md5 dcgdis.exe > MD5 (dcgdis.exe) = a48d9e127c19528bd4a650e692b2f2be > lava# > > Is there a newer one ?
There has only ever been one of these things, and its a binary wad to me just as to you, so I don't know why it returns success multple times, I guess it just checks the NIC type and does the write. People writing this are not Unix types, they are DOS tools programmers, should tell you something :) I was just talking to one of our Linux engineers and they actually export the ability to read and write the eeprom via ethtool, maybe I should look into adding something like a sysctl for that. Right now, just run it once, then test to see if the problem has disappeared. Jack _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
