[ltp] intel driver problems in 2.6.27

[Theodore Tso]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 06:29:12PM +0200, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> 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

I think what you meant was "ethtool -e eth0 > eth0-eeprom.txt"

I'm running a Debian Ubuntu Hardy userspace, and a 2.6.26-rc6 kernel,
and it hasn't happened to me.  There does seem to be some correlation
with people running with newer userspace programs.

							- Ted