E1000 invalid eeprom fix

[Colin Ian King]

Tim,

I'd classify this as an acceptable kludge if does the trick - the fix
seems to makes sense if one follows the comments to the original patch
in
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1474679&group_id=42302&atid=447449

Colin

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 07:20 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> What do y'all think about this patch? The correct fix is to reflash
> eeprom on the device, but how many folks are gonna do that? I'm waiting
> for confirmation from Chris Jones that it works on the boss' laptop.
> 
> rtg
>