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- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:45:55 +0200 (MEST)
- From: Erik Starback <erik@math.uu.se>
- To: netboot@baghira.han.de
- Subject: Netboot with Intel EEPRO100+ Management
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- Hello!
-
- When Intel eepro100+ NIC disappeared from the market, I didn't know
- what to do. I didn't find any information if anyone has used the
- new eepro100+ Management Adapter to netboot linux.
-
- I thought that the card should netboot with the same configuration as
- the old card when I read Donald Beckers comment:
- > The driver should "just work" with the '559. It's not supposed to be
- > substantially different than the '558. (I don't have a datasheet
- > or sample card to confirm this statement.)
-
- The problem was now only to put the netboot-program to the built in
- flash memory on the NIC. With the old card I used a flash memory (Intel
- N28F020 [N28010 didn't work])) and the program FUTIL.EXE from Intel to
- flash it. FUTIL did't recognize the memory on the management card
- and did not work therefore.
-
- I found the intel program FBOOT.EXE that was made to upgrade the built
- in Intel BOOT agent. I did: Boot dos from floppy, Run FBOOT (choose
- adapter), choose (u)pdate, choose Create restore image, rename the
- backup file (in my case 2743BE52.FLS [the eight last hex digits from
- the MAC address]), rename your netboot code (in my case netboot 0.8.1)
- to the backup files original name (in my case 2743BE52.FLS), run
- FBOOT, choose (r)estore.
-
- Voila!
-
- A shorter way (if you don't need the backup of the old Intel BOOT
- agent code) is of course: rename netboot file to [the eight last hex
- digits from the MAC address].FLS, run FBOOT, choose restore.
-
- Caution: I think it is possible to make a NIC unusable if you have
- made the netboot (or etherboot) file with "wrong" parameters. A couple
- of month ago I did a etherboot boot file and put it on an old
- EEPRO100+ card. It worked fine, but it was impossible to boot local
- with it. So I could not boot dos and with FUTIL or FBOOT erase the
- flash memory! To erase the chip I had to take out the memory chip,
- boot dos and then put in the memory chip. This isn't possible when the
- memory chip is build in.
-
- Links:
- <http://support.intel.com/support/landesk/configmgr/LSA1_193.HTM>
- FUTIL.EXE is a part of LSA1_193.ZIP
-
- <http://support.intel.com/support/etherexpress/pro100/100pboot.htm>
- FBOOT.EXE is a part of 100pboot.exe
-
- /Erik S
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