Brandon, We obviously have internal tools that we use to do this, including manufacturing tools. We do not support customers upgrading the EEPROM images. There would be way too much confusion over what the correct image is. Some of our NICs do have EEPROM images that can boot the system over iSCSI as I've said but even these images are not field upgradeable. One of the biggest problems for trying to do upgrades of the EEPROM image is that the MAC address is stored in it which each image unique.
So in general there is no reason to update the EEPROM images of our NICs. We (Intel) don't do it and don't recommend that any customers do it either. Cheers, John ----------------------------------------------------------- "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.", Benjamin Franklin 1755 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon Schulz Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:33 AM To: Ronciak, John Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] flash firmware on PRO/1000 PT from Linux? I am looking for a flash utility (and probably some information on usage) that can flash the EEPROM. I am also interested in what is stored on the EEPROM, is it possible to flash a new version of firmware onto the cards or is it used just for PXE/iSCSI boot info? We are working on tools to flash BIOS, update firmware on RAID controllers, etc. I was not able to find any firmware updates for the PRO/1000 ethernet cards on Intel's website but someone on my team swears they exist. Brandon On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Ronciak, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you looking for NICs that can boot via the NIC using iSCSI or are > you looking for a flash utility that actually can flash the EEPROM? We > have NICs today that boot via iSCSI. You can even install RHEL5 and > SLES10 via those NICs. > > Let us know. > > > Cheers, > John > ----------------------------------------------------------- > "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little > temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.", Benjamin > Franklin 1755 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brandon > Schulz > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:30 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [E1000-devel] flash firmware on PRO/1000 PT from Linux? > > Is there a way to flash the boot ROM and set up iSCSI remote boot on the > Intel PRO/1000 PT (Dual/Quad) card from Linux? I have done quite a bit > of > searching and all of the tools I have found so far have been for Windows > or > DOS. Also, is there any other flashable firmware on these Intel > ethernet > cards? I am trying to support firware updates for a bunch of components > in > our servers directly from Linux since we don't want to have to boot > Windows > or DOS from these systems. > > Thanks, > Brandon > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
