Comment 79 for bug 263555

Craig: most of us never use windows but have been constrained to pay for it, so if it's able to restore a dead hardware device, at least I paid for something! :) It's better than never use the ethernet card anymore isn't it? It is better to know in this page that the hardware damage is reversible, rather than leave here a page that states "use ubuntu and you can kill your only integrated NIC forever"...

It would be interesting to discover how windows "restores" the card so that somebody could create a free software that does the same.