Comment 324 for bug 263555

(In reply to comment #89 from Olaf Kirch)
> Jesse, I'm setting this bug as NEEDINFO to you.
> The biggest roadblock right now is our inability to bring those dead
> NICs back to life. Without this, we cannot proceed with testing, and
> we are somewhat reluctant to try this ourselves, as it seems someone at
> RedHat has bricked a laptop this way.

We'll get you a utility today to help with this, and at the same time we're working on a quick hack to the driver to take in an ethtool eeprom dump and push it back to the NVM. We hope to have that done and working today.

> We tried a BIOS update on one of the affected laptops, but this didn't
> help. And since we weren't aware of the problem in advance, we don't
> have an ethregs dump of these.

so it depends on whether the BIOS version has the LAN part included. Some bios versions do, and some do not. I know that in particular there were a couple versions of the bioses for the X60/T60 line that had LAN NVM updates.

> So can you please get someone from Intel to help us with restoring the
> NVM to a working condition? Thanks a lot!

We are working on it, a couple of different avenues.