$ dmesg | grep e1000e
[    5.643760] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k
[    5.643761] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation.
[    5.644308] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6: Interrupt Throttling Rate (ints/sec) set to dynamic conservative mode
[    5.877838] e1000e 0000:00:1f.6: The NVM Checksum Is Not Valid
[    5.907340] e1000e: probe of 0000:00:1f.6 failed with error -5

$ sudo ./bootutil64e

Intel(R) Ethernet Flash Firmware Utility
BootUtil version 1.6.13.0
Copyright (C) 2003-2016 Intel Corporation

Type BootUtil -? for help

Port Network Address Location Series  WOL Flash Firmware                Version
==== =============== ======== ======= === ============================= =======
  1   D017C2201F59     0:31.6 Gigabit N/A FLASH Not Present

s32 e1000e_validate_nvm_checksum_generic(struct e1000_hw *hw)
{
        s32 ret_val;
        u16 checksum = 0;
        u16 i, nvm_data;

        for (i = 0; i < (NVM_CHECKSUM_REG + 1); i++) {
                ret_val = e1000_read_nvm(hw, i, 1, &nvm_data);
                if (ret_val) {
                        e_dbg("NVM Read Errorn");
                        return ret_val;
                }
                checksum += nvm_data;
        }

        if (checksum != (u16)NVM_SUM) {
                e_dbg("NVM Checksum Invalidn");
                return -E1000_ERR_NVM;
        }

        return 0;
}

#define NVM_SUM                         0xBABA

s32 e1000e_validate_nvm_checksum_generic(struct e1000_hw *hw)
{
        return 0;
}