Re: Flashing Onboard 82562EM
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel |
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| Message-ID | <Pine.LNX.4.33.0206041032510.1329-100000@presario> |
On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Trevor Johnston wrote: > I have a Gigabyte FA1UB with an Intel 810E2 motherboard with an eepro100 > compatible (82562 to be exact) onboard NIC. We are considering using 30 of > these machines as thin client in a classroom. ... > So, I wish to use Donald Becker's eepro100-diag program to flash it > instead. I compiled it with both libmii and libflash. It recognises the > card and -e and -ee options work, but neither -B nor -S work. However, > mailing list messages seem to indicate that eepro100-diag can flash the > ROM. But I would rather not without a backup of the current contents. Writing the flash requires kernel support for mapping the boot ROM. This kernel support does not exist in standard kernels, thus the eepro100-diag can not read or write the flash. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993