em(4) on FreeBSD is sometimes annoying

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 5 01:34:49 UTC 2008


On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:18:50AM -0700, Jack Vogel wrote:
> The focus here on the laptop distracted me, but someone else at work
> reminded me. Its very important that you run the EEPROM fix for
> the 82573 that i posted a long while back, search in email archive
> for it. Its a DOS executable that will patch your EEPROM.
> 
> I am not sure if the Lenova's need it, but get it, run it, and then
> see if your problem goes away.

The tool Jack is referring to is below.  I knew saving it for a rainy
day would be worth it.  :-)

http://people.freebsd.org/~koitsu/em_82573_manc_fix.zip

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