Bug#856049: ethtool: Can not use --change-eeprom option

2017-02-24 Thread Yvan Masson
Thanks for this fast and precise answer! > As for why the driver failed to access the EEPROM, I can't tell - > there are several possible error cases. It might be worth trying to > pass the EEPROM contents as a binary file on stdin, instead of trying > to set a single byte. I already tried this,

Bug#856049: ethtool: Can not use --change-eeprom option

2017-02-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
Control: reassign -1 src:linux 4.9.6-3 Control: retitle -1 e1000: EEPROM write failed on 82540EM Control: tag -1 upstream On Fri, 2017-02-24 at 19:52 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > Package: ethtool > Version: 1:4.8-1 > Severity: normal > > Dear maintainer, > > The EEPROM of my Ethernet NIC has been

Bug#856049: ethtool: Can not use --change-eeprom option

2017-02-24 Thread Yvan Masson
Package: ethtool Version: 1:4.8-1 Severity: normal Dear maintainer, The EEPROM of my Ethernet NIC has been flushed for some unknown reason. I would like to use ethtool to restore my EEPROM (fortunately I have a dump). Here is one simple "test command" I tried and which should be valid according