[gPXE] cheap NICS

[Kyle Kienapfel]

On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:00 AM, William Scott <lists at magicwilly.info> wrote:
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> On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 5:40 AM, FM <fm9 at shaw.ca> wrote:
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>>  Here's some info from my experience.          The 2 links below have
>> enough info to get started.
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>> Brief as Possible.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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
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>> Linux
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>> 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.
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> 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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I've only heard of DIP28, DIP32 and PLCC32 sockets on nics. I think
also in most cases the chips are addressed in parallel (16-18 address
lines and 8 i/o's)

I've personally used a RTL8139b to flash some SST29EE010's
This is probably too indepth:
http://www.mail-archive.com/flashrom@flashrom.org/msg02529.html
I don't have any other links on hand for that.