Thanks! This is the answer I needed, you have saved me a ton of time
looking into this...
Thanks,
Brandon
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Ronciak, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> 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
> >
>
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