[eepro100] Flashing Onboard 82562EM

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Trevor Johnston wrote:

> I have a Gigabyte FA1UB with an Intel 810E2 motherboard with an eepro100
> compatible (82562 to be exact) onboard NIC. We are considering using 30 of
> these machines as thin client in a classroom.
...
> So, I wish to use Donald Becker's eepro100-diag program to flash it
> instead. I compiled it with both libmii and libflash. It recognises the
> card and -e and -ee options work, but neither -B nor -S work. However,
> mailing list messages seem to indicate that eepro100-diag can flash the
> ROM. But I would rather not without a backup of the current contents.

Writing the flash requires kernel support for mapping the boot
ROM.  This kernel support does not exist in standard kernels, thus the
eepro100-diag can not read or write the flash.

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