I would be very interested in this too. I have a few similar 28-pin boot
ROM socketed cards spare and a device I'd like to re-program which uses
28 pin ROM chips.
If there's a problem with the write enable pin, can this be worked
around with another DIL holder with the correct pin bent, and a wire to
connect that pin to the correct voltage?
--
Andrew.
On 16/05/2010 14:01, Guenter wrote:
Hi all,
a lot of Realtek RTL8139 NICs have a DIL-32 bootrom socket, and it is
possible from DOS to flash PXE bootcode directly onboard provided you
use ATMEL AT29C512 or AT29C010A flashs; here's the download of the
Realtek flash program (see DOS section):
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=6&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
unfortunately Realtek's flash utility only supports ATMEL flashs, and
even more worse is the trap that you can only flash the chip if it is
detected by the BIOS - if you just insert an empty chip then it didnt
work for me; the chip needs at least the 55AA code at the beginning so
that its memory is mapped into adapter space by the MB BIOS.
Do you think that it is possible to add support for flashing these
cards (omst likely the RTL8169 GB NICs work same) to flashrom?
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