[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Jeremy Jackson wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just gotten my DoC working (on an old
> > ARCnet card's boot rom socket... no hot swapping
> > for me!), and I'm looking for a working BX config.
>
> I've got a bunch of old 3C5098 and 3C900B's with
> a 2x16 DIP boot ROM sockets. Can I use them with
> a DoC? Can I burn a DoC with them? Well, okay,
> it was worth trying ;)
I haven't tried (and i do have a 3c509B... that's what
you meant by 3C9058?) but the best
source of info would be www.scyld.com,
Donald Becker wrote most of the NIC drivers for
linux and he made diagnostic utils to do things
including writing flash roms. perhaps some of these
cards do passthru, but at least you have working
code to adapt to mtd drivers...Tulip chips only
map the flash for reading, to write you have to access
icky registers.
To get my ARCnet card to do this, I just soldered a
32pin socket where the 28pin was... just left off
a few wires; works great. (of course you have to know
which wires...)
