To: "Jesse Brandeburg" <jesse.brandeburg@gmail.com>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "NetDEV list" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
       e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: e1000e fails after several S3 resumes (2.6.26 Debian, TP T60) 
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:29:21 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:21:43 -0400
From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@MIT.EDU>
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Thanks.  I'll use 'ethregs' and 'ethtool -d eth0' at the next
opportunity, though it might take a few weeks for the problem to recur,

> you'll have to build ethregs which I haven't tried to do on debian,
> but it should be possible.

It needed the 'libpci-dev' package and built smoothly.

> There is also lots of opportunity for BIOS bugs to be effecting things
> so please make sure that you have the latest bios.

It has BIOS 2.20 (79ETE3WW), the latest version when I last upgraded the
BIOS, but I see that 2.23 is available.  I'll upgrade as soon as I
remember how on a Windowless (TM) machine.

-Sanjoy

`Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always
 glorify the hunters.'  --African Proverb
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