[ltp] minipci card and T43

Alejandro Bonilla linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 29 Jun 2005 14:44:44 -0600


> I tried to change the EEPROM, for example, use
> 
> ethtool -E eth1 magic 0x2200 offset 0x8 value 0x11
> 
> eth1 is of course the wireless interface. Now seemingly it's 
> changed. If I use: 
> ethtool -e eth1 raw on > tempfile
> and if now i look at the tempfile, I can see that the byte at 0x8 is
> 0x11, but lspci -v will still show subsystem 2701 with 01 at offset
> 0x8, and if rmmod and insmod again, reading eeprom now show the byte
> to be indeed 0x01.
> 
> What i do not understand is the magic key above. I just used the
> example on ipw2100-devel list. Where can I find the magic key? Is that
> the problem here or not? thanks for suggestions.
> 
> Lilong

You gotta take this to ipw2100-devel. This is not the right place.

The guy who did the change is around in the ML.

.Alejandro