[gPXE] Burning gPXE into Realtek 8169

[Juan Belmonte]

Stuck trying homemade eprom flashers, my succesfull attempt was using and
old PentiumII mainboard and using the dos software UNIFLASH to do a live
burn.

Regards
Juan Belmonte

2010/7/15 Marty Connor <mdc at etherboot.org>

> On 7/15/10 1:41 AM, William Scott wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Eric Pardee <eric at atlasdigital.tv>
> wrote:
> >> I have the 10ec:8169 (Realtek) PCI NIC.
> >>
> >> Essentially, does anyone know if it is possible to burn gPXE onto the
> >> Realtek 8169 ROM?
>
> I don't know of any Realtek 8169-based PCI or PCIe NICs that have
> onboard flash.
>
> I do have quite a few that have 32 pin DIP sockets, in which you can put
> an EEPROM.
>
> I do not believe you can program that EEPROM on the card, but you can
> use a EEPROM programmer say, something like:
>
>   http://arlabs.com/
>
> to program a flash EEPROM like the 27SF512 or larger from someplace like:
>
>   http://www.progshop.com/shop/chips/flash-eproms.html
>
> > I'll be heading down this path soon.
> >
> > Dose the card have a socket for a bootrom?
> >
> > Can you program in-situ on the card?
> > I'm looking at TP-link cards that have realtek chips. Been told I need
> > MC27C512 eproms and a external burner.
>
> You might also consider getting an Intel pro/1000 card that has onboard
> flash that you can flash with gPXE using the Intel IBAUTIL.EXE program.
>
> Unless you're going to be programming quite a few cards, it might be
> cheaper to get a NIC with built-in flash.
>
> I hope this helps,
>
> / Marty /
>
>
>
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