Re: flashing custom bios Was: [Etherboot-users] booting diskless

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

> This is similar to using the socket on 3C905B NIC cards to write flash 
> chips for RTL8139 or LINKSYS cards using the bromutil program that comes 
> with Etherboot in the contrib directory.

Does it have to be a 3C905 "B" or will any 3c905 (with a socket) do?

Just to say I have done it, and to add to the database of what has been done, I 
want to burn an e-prom useing a NIC.  I have an e-propm a friend yanked out of a 
P1 box before he threw it out:

586 ami bios, Winbond W29EE011-15, 96241

I have the following nics (all have sockets the eprom will fit in.  I have no idea 
what the pinout is.)

lspci:
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]

isa:
eepro_init_module: Auto-detecting boards (May God protect us...)
  id: 0xb4  io: 0x2c0 eth%d: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA at 0x2c0, 
00:aa:00:69:ff:2e, IRQ 10, 10BaseT.

eexpress.c: Module autoprobe not recommended, give io=xx.
eth%d: EtherExpress 16 at 0x320 (IRQ 10, RJ45 connector, 16-bit bus, 32k RAM)

The Pro boots with "Boot from Network (y/n)?" but seems to only do novel, so it's 
eprom is proably ready to be upgraded too.

Sooo... will any of these work for me?