Dave Jones wrote: > I booted up 2.6.21rc7 without an ethernet cable plugged in, > and noticed this.. > > e1000: 0000:02:00.0: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid > e1000: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -5 > > I plugged a cable in, did rmmod e1000;modprobe e1000, and got this.. > > e1000: 0000:02:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) > 00:16:d3:3a:62:d3 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network > Connection > e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, > Flow Control: RX e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/100 speed: disabling > TSO > > and it works fine.. > Why would no cable make it think the EEPROM is invalid ?
There was a similar issue reported a while back on T60 and it had to do with power management: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-476305-highlight-e1000.html Some questions: What was the system in your case (lspci -vv)? > > I repeated this a few times, just to be sure it wasn't a fluke, and it > seems to happen 100% reproducably. Can you reproduce this with the latest driver from e1000.sf.net? Thanks, Emil - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
