[ltp] intel driver problems in 2.6.27

[Richard Mancusi]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:11, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> 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

My T61 running Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha-5 2.6.27 did have a problem.
However it was not permanent damage as stated on the Ubuntu
developer list.  Once I fell back to 2.6.26 it started working again.

-rich