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Re: Questions on flashing ethernet into AWARD BIOS




Harald Milz wrote:

> Yu Fu <fu@hepg.sdu.edu.cn> wrote:
>
> > I am very interested in flashing the etherboot code into the AWARD BIOS
> > chip on a GIGABYTE mainboard. But as I can learn from the previous
>
> Does anyone have experience adding the etherboot or netboot image to a
> Asus NLX board (P2{N,L,E}-N, MES-N models) Award BIOS? We're about to sell
> a number of diskless thin clients to customers, and the boards have no
> EEPROM socket.  Which is the right driver for Intel 82258/9 for etherboot
> resp. netboot?  For etherboot it seems to be the eepro driver. Netboot ->
> e100bpkt.com or any other driver from ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/drivers ?
>

eepro100   etherboot works with floppy.

>
> Alternatively, what maximum EEPROM size can most RTL8139 cards accomodate?
> More than 8 K like old NE2K's I hope. I have 2 such cards but the ROM
> socket isn't documented...)
>

At this time nobody has success with any ASUS NLX  boards. I tried them all.
Some
people are working on it.
Please  have a look to older posts in this list.


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