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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:07:25 -0700
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Vladimir Ermakov <samflanker@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: em0: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid
Message-ID:  <20080807050725.GA8969@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <489A7B64.4000306@gmail.com>
References:  <489A7B64.4000306@gmail.com>

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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 08:34:44AM +0400, Vladimir Ermakov wrote:
> Hello
>
> my trouble with nic
>
> part of `dmesg`  output
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> em0: <Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection 6.9.5> port 0xec00-0xec3f mem  
> 0xfebc0000-0xfebdffff,0xfeb80000-0xfebbffff irq 19 at device 2.0 on pci2
> em0: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid
> device_attach: em0 attach returned 5
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> part of `pciconf -lv` output
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> em0@pci0:2:2:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10018086 chip=0x10268086 rev=0x01  
> hdr=0x00
>    vendor     = 'Intel Corporation'
>    device     = '82545GM Gigabit Ethernet Controller'
>    class      = network
>    subclass   = ethernet
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> uname output
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> FreeBSD  7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #2: Wed Jul 16 20:36:12 UTC 2008   
>   root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STONE  i386
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> please, any solution?

Intel probably has a utility to reset the EEPROM settings on the NIC.
Jack Vogel may know where to get such a utility.

I do not believe this problem is FreeBSD-related.

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