On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:00 AM, William Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, FM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Here's some info from my experience. The 2 links below have >> enough info to get started. >> >> Brief as Possible. >> >> >> DOS >> You can flash onboard NICS with Award Bios's with the CBROM utility. >> I do this with a freedos boot cd with files on a fat partition. >> >> You can flash intel NICS with IBAUtil available . some e100's , with >> the e1000 being the most popular with 128k ROM. >> I do this in Dos , possible from some windows versions as well. >> >> You can flash a variety of 3com cards with a utility that I couldn't >> find. Anyone care to share. >> 3Com was my original intent >> >> Linux >> >> Flashrom I was trying this for coreboot , still experimenting. >> >> >> > > I'm more in search of info for NICs that have a bootrom socket. > > Information such as type of rom to use, can they be programmed on the card, > if not what type of rom burner required. > > I've only heard of DIP28, DIP32 and PLCC32 sockets on nics. I think also in most cases the chips are addressed in parallel (16-18 address lines and 8 i/o's)
I've personally used a RTL8139b to flash some SST29EE010's This is probably too indepth: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg02529.html I don't have any other links on hand for that. _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
