Stuck trying homemade eprom flashers, my succesfull attempt was using and old PentiumII mainboard and using the dos software UNIFLASH to do a live burn.
Regards Juan Belmonte 2010/7/15 Marty Connor <[email protected]> > 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 / > > >
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