Re: Flashing Onboard 82562EM

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.eepro100.devel
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
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.