Glad I could help.
Cheers,
John
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"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.", Benjamin
Franklin 1755
________________________________
From: Brandon Schulz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:47 AM
To: Ronciak, John
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] flash firmware on PRO/1000 PT from Linux?
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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