gnu/124904: EEPROM corruption with Compaq NC3163 NIC

[Kris Shaw]

>Number:         124904
>Category:       gnu
>Synopsis:       EEPROM corruption with Compaq NC3163 NIC
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Jun 23 13:00:08 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Kris Shaw
>Release:        6.2-RELEASE-p11
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD freenas.local 6.2-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Mar 12 18:17:49 CET 2008 root at pcbsd62:/usr/obj/freenas/usr/src/sys/FREENAS-i386   i386
>Description:

Server: Compaq ML350 G2
Nic: Embedded Compaq NC3163

After booting FreeBSD 6.2 (FreeNAS 0.686.3) the embedded network controller starts to report PXE-E05 errors (EEPROM corrupted) on each bootup. Disabling PXE boot in server BIOS removes boot up error, but EEPROM corruption still causes problems because other operating systems detect EEPROM problems (e.g. Linux e100 driver).

Vendor ID: 0x0E11
Device ID: 0xB134

NC3163 is controlled by fxp driver as it is based on Intel 82559 chipset. Looking through fxp source code I can see that code exists to re-program EEPROM. Perhaps the EEPROM update isn't appropriate for NC3163?

>How-To-Repeat:
Boot FreeBSD 6.3
>Fix:


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