I've gotten the following comments from Intel, and thus thing it's unlikely to be a kernel problem. Have you tested either with a different kernel or do you have another e1000 card that does/does not have the same problem?
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:48:55AM -0700, Ronciak, John wrote: > We have no idea. There is no information in the bug report about what > the HW (machine) was, what NIC/LOM is being used, nothing. There also > is no indication if the NIC/LOM worked with other versions of the > driver/kernel. It also doesn't say if other PRO/1000 NIC/LOM are seeing > the problem. We havce no reports of this type of thign from anywhere > else. It is possible that the EEPROM is actually reading bad. This > could a NIC/LOM problem but could also be a system problem but since > there is no information about it, we could even guess at it. > > Like I said, we don't have any other reports from the field so it's > probably just local to this machine and or NIC/LOM. The driver > reporting that the EEPROM read is bad is a good thing for the driver to > be doing. It's checking for bad HW/EEPROM problems. > > Cheers, > John
