Re: More: cromutil hangs when flashing 3C905C-TXM

[Greg Beeley <Greg.Beeley@LightSys.org>]

Hi,

> >> I have been using cromutil successfully fro quite some time with
> >> 3C905C-TX NICs.
> >> Today i tried to program a 3C905C-TXM and cromutil hangs. I am using
> >> cromutil from etherboot 4.7.22, older versions did not work either.

It is possible that the Atmel chip was already protected.  I think that
particular chip has a feature that allows the programmer to optionally 
permanently write-protect the bootblock (can't be undone).  If that's true, 
then it can't be reprogrammed.  Note that I don't think Etherboot makes
any distinction between the chip's bootblock and the non-bootblock part.

Greg.

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