On 7/15/10 1:41 AM, William Scott wrote: > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Eric Pardee <[email protected]> wrote: >> I have the 10ec:8169 (Realtek) PCI NIC. >> >> Essentially, does anyone know if it is possible to burn gPXE onto the >> Realtek 8169 ROM?
I don't know of any Realtek 8169-based PCI or PCIe NICs that have onboard flash. I do have quite a few that have 32 pin DIP sockets, in which you can put an EEPROM. I do not believe you can program that EEPROM on the card, but you can use a EEPROM programmer say, something like: http://arlabs.com/ to program a flash EEPROM like the 27SF512 or larger from someplace like: http://www.progshop.com/shop/chips/flash-eproms.html > I'll be heading down this path soon. > > Dose the card have a socket for a bootrom? > > Can you program in-situ on the card? > I'm looking at TP-link cards that have realtek chips. Been told I need > MC27C512 eproms and a external burner. You might also consider getting an Intel pro/1000 card that has onboard flash that you can flash with gPXE using the Intel IBAUTIL.EXE program. Unless you're going to be programming quite a few cards, it might be cheaper to get a NIC with built-in flash. I hope this helps, / Marty / _______________________________________________ gPXE mailing list [email protected] http://etherboot.org/mailman/listinfo/gpxe
