[ltp] intel driver problems in 2.6.27

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 18:29:12 +0200

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:16:56PM +0200, Michael Gaber wrote:
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/Fehlerhafter-Linux-Treiber-beschaedigt-Netzwerkkarte-Update--/meldung/116350

Upstream bug, in english:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11382

My T61 (8897-CTO) seems to have this kind of card. I just blacklisted
the module for now.

what you can do is to backup the eeprom using ethtool -s eth0 >
eth0-eeprom.txt
(not sure it'll be usable if there's a problem, but…)

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis