CRC stripping is breaking SMBUS-connected BMC's. We disable this
feature to make it work. This fixes related bugs regarding SOL.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |    7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
index c44ed6f..7787299 100644
--- a/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c
@@ -1628,8 +1628,11 @@ e1000_setup_rctl(struct e1000_adapter *a
                E1000_RCTL_LBM_NO | E1000_RCTL_RDMTS_HALF |
                (adapter->hw.mc_filter_type << E1000_RCTL_MO_SHIFT);
 
+       /* disable hardware stripping of CRC because it breaks
+        * BMC firmware connected over SMBUS
        if (adapter->hw.mac_type > e1000_82543)
                rctl |= E1000_RCTL_SECRC;
+        */
 
        if (adapter->hw.tbi_compatibility_on == 1)
                rctl |= E1000_RCTL_SBP;
@@ -1696,7 +1699,9 @@ e1000_setup_rctl(struct e1000_adapter *a
                rfctl |= E1000_RFCTL_IPV6_DIS;
                E1000_WRITE_REG(&adapter->hw, RFCTL, rfctl);
 
-               rctl |= E1000_RCTL_DTYP_PS | E1000_RCTL_SECRC;
+               /* disable the stripping of CRC because it breaks
+                * BMC firmware connected over SMBUS */
+               rctl |= E1000_RCTL_DTYP_PS /* | E1000_RCTL_SECRC */;
 
                psrctl |= adapter->rx_ps_bsize0 >>
                        E1000_PSRCTL_BSIZE0_SHIFT;



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