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 ? I repeated this a few times, just to be sure it wasn't a fluke, and it seems to happen 100% reproducably. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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