Intel cards with broken EEPROM / e100 driver

[Stone123]

Please do no use this to upgrade system or for install it will break, corrupt it.
Well at last they kernel people let us make our own mistakes. They did't allow broken ethernet cards that could break your system.

2 simple steps :

1.open terminal (gnome alt+f2) and type:

echo "options e100 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/options

Save and exit.
2. ethernet cards are loaded from initrd so you need to update that to get it on boot time:

sudo update-initramfs -u

And thats it reboot.
Thanks to people at #ubuntu-kernel " freenode
/updated thx to bruing

Ubuntu installation :

Installing Ubuntu with broken EEPROM:

On Live CD , it's simple . Just boot the CD and start a terminal ,
on alternative , let it configure keyboard and when it trys to configure network and you get error press <Go back>
Scroll down in menu and choose start shell.

In Terminal/shell type :

modprobe -r e100

and then :

modprobe e100 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1

type exit to exit shell.

[bruenig]

Pretty sure that will give you a permission denied error. Either

sudo bash -c 'echo "options e100 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/options'

or

echo "options e100 eeprom_bad_csum_allow=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/options

should work though.

Then of course

sudo update-initramfs -u