Re: eepro100+ flashing?

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>- A Netgear FA310TX, which unbelievably has NO EPROM SOCKET (and no 
>flash, as far as I can tell), though one can clearly see where the socket 
>was omitted from the card.  Sigh.  Does anyone know which Etherboot 
>driver works with this card? I can at least test floppy boot.

It's a Tulip clone and I imagine some hacking of ntulip.c is required.

>- An eepro100+ card, which seems to have a flash eprom on it.  Has anyone 
>programmed the eepro100?  It would be nice to have a similar utility to 
>what is available for the 3Com card.  They both are using an AT498V512 
>flash chip, which only says they probably have the same amount of flash, 
>since I'm sure the programming interfaces are different.

I think Intel provide a flashing utility at their site. Think I mentioned
this in RELNOTES or something.

>The 3Com cards are expensive but very cool, in that one can program them 
>without a PROM burner.  I suspect the eepro100+ is similar.  Until the 
>PXE/Nilo/Multiboot/GRUB stuff gets sorted out, it would be neat (IMHO) to 
>be able to use Etherboot code in these cards.  

Yup, EEPROMs are cool, you don't need to buy a burner and eraser.
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