Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: r8169 MAC addresses broken | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:52:21 +0100 |
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Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> writes:
> However I may have a hw failure or some bug overwrote my eeprom, I see this > in current mmotm: > r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A disabled > r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.3LK-NAPI loaded > r8169 0000:06:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 > r8169 0000:06:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 > r8169: mac_version = 0x0c > r8169 0000:06:00.0: irq 43 for MSI/MSI-X > r8169: MAC address found in EEPROM: 00:00:00:00:00:00 > eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xffffc200042b0000, 00:00:00:00:00:00, XID 38000000
I think we need drivers or maybe some tool to save contents of those little EEPROM / flash NVM configuration chips before it's too late. First the ICH* e1000e corruption and now GbE RTL. -- Krzysztof Halasa
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