Re: Flashing Onboard 82562EM

On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Donald Becker wrote:
> > 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.

Thanks for clearing that up, Donald.

Might I respectfully suggest that it might be a good idea sometime in the
future if the utilities were a little clearer on exactly which options
were supported? Regardless, your utilities (and drivers) are excellent.

Trevor Johnston