[gPXE] cheap NICS

William Scott lists at magicwilly.info
Wed Jul 7 03:00:55 EDT 2010


On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, FM <fm9 at shaw.ca> wrote:

>  Here's some info from my experience.          The 2 links below have
> enough info to get started.
>
> Brief as Possible.
>
>
> DOS
> You can flash onboard NICS with Award Bios's with the CBROM utility.
> I do this with a freedos boot cd  with files on a fat partition.
>
> You can flash intel NICS with IBAUtil available .   some e100's , with
> the e1000 being the most popular with 128k ROM.
> I do this in Dos  , possible from some windows versions as well.
>
> You can flash a variety of 3com cards with  a utility that I couldn't
> find.   Anyone care to share.
> 3Com was my original intent
>
> Linux
>
> Flashrom   I was trying this  for coreboot  , still experimenting.
>
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I'm more in search of info for NICs that have a bootrom socket.

Information such as type of rom to use, can they be programmed on the card,
if not what type of rom burner required.
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