Re: eepro100+ flashing?

[Steve_Marfisi@3com.com]

Marty -

I am not familiar with the 8k MII bug on the 905C - if you can provide me with
details in a separate e-mail (or point me to the right spot), I can directly
deliver this to the appropriate ROM / driver / ASIC engineers and have it looked
at.

Intel provides a FUTIL utility that can flash their NICs with raw binary code.
You can grab it via their PXE SDKs.

Steve




Marty Connor <mdc@thinguin.org> on 01/05/2000 10:22:27 AM

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Subject:  eepro100+ flashing?





Speaking of flashing NICs, I just picked up 3 more cards:

- A Netgear FA310TX, which unbelievably has NO EPROM SOCKET (and no
flash, as far as I can tell), though one can clearly see where the socket
was omitted from the card.  Sigh.  Does anyone know which Etherboot
driver works with this card? I can at least test floppy boot.

- A 3Com 3C905C, which I want to try the contributed in-machine flashing
utility with. (and of course make sure current Etherboot supports it).
(hey, do you think 3Com fixed the 8K MII Select bug in this rev??)

- An eepro100+ card, which seems to have a flash eprom on it.  Has anyone
programmed the eepro100?  It would be nice to have a similar utility to
what is available for the 3Com card.  They both are using an AT498V512
flash chip, which only says they probably have the same amount of flash,
since I'm sure the programming interfaces are different.

The 3Com cards are expensive but very cool, in that one can program them
without a PROM burner.  I suspect the eepro100+ is similar.  Until the
PXE/Nilo/Multiboot/GRUB stuff gets sorted out, it would be neat (IMHO) to
be able to use Etherboot code in these cards.

Who's with me? :-)

Marty

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