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.<div><div><br></div><div>Regards </div><div>Juan Belmonte<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2010/7/15 Marty Connor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdc@etherboot.org">mdc@etherboot.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">
On 7/15/10 1:41 AM, William Scott wrote:<br>
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Eric Pardee <<a href="mailto:eric@atlasdigital.tv">eric@atlasdigital.tv</a>> wrote:<br>
>> I have the 10ec:8169 (Realtek) PCI NIC.<br>
>><br>
</div><div class="im">>> Essentially, does anyone know if it is possible to burn gPXE onto the<br>
>> Realtek 8169 ROM?<br>
<br>
</div>I don't know of any Realtek 8169-based PCI or PCIe NICs that have<br>
onboard flash.<br>
<br>
I do have quite a few that have 32 pin DIP sockets, in which you can put<br>
an EEPROM.<br>
<br>
I do not believe you can program that EEPROM on the card, but you can<br>
use a EEPROM programmer say, something like:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://arlabs.com/" target="_blank">http://arlabs.com/</a><br>
<br>
to program a flash EEPROM like the 27SF512 or larger from someplace like:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.progshop.com/shop/chips/flash-eproms.html" target="_blank">http://www.progshop.com/shop/chips/flash-eproms.html</a><br>
<div class="im"><br>
> I'll be heading down this path soon.<br>
><br>
> Dose the card have a socket for a bootrom?<br>
><br>
> Can you program in-situ on the card?<br>
> I'm looking at TP-link cards that have realtek chips. Been told I need<br>
> MC27C512 eproms and a external burner.<br>
<br>
</div>You might also consider getting an Intel pro/1000 card that has onboard<br>
flash that you can flash with gPXE using the Intel IBAUTIL.EXE program.<br>
<br>
Unless you're going to be programming quite a few cards, it might be<br>
cheaper to get a NIC with built-in flash.<br>
<br>
I hope this helps,<br>
<br>
/ Marty /<br>
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