Comment 211 for bug 263555

the difference in the driver I just attached is:
diff -rup e1000e-0.4.1.7.orig/src/netdev.c e1000e-0.4.1.7/src/netdev.c
--- e1000e-0.4.1.7.orig/src/netdev.c 2008-06-23 09:27:33.000000000 -0700
+++ e1000e-0.4.1.7/src/netdev.c 2008-09-22 16:06:59.000000000 -0700
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@

 #define DRV_DEBUG

-#define DRV_VERSION "0.4.1.7" DRV_NAPI DRV_DEBUG
+#define DRV_VERSION "0.4.1.7_nocsum" DRV_NAPI DRV_DEBUG
 char e1000e_driver_name[] = "e1000e";
 const char e1000e_driver_version[] = DRV_VERSION;

@@ -5309,8 +5309,10 @@ static int __devinit e1000_probe(struct
                        break;
                if (i == 2) {
                        e_err("The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid\n");
+ /* JJJ skip around error path
                        err = -EIO;
                        goto err_eeprom;
+ JJJ end */
                }
        }