excellent response...thanks...but
when I run cromutil i am able to backup the NIC and erase it. when I try to program it it just hangs and I donot get any response....so now what?
yes, I verified the address using CAT.........
Wait a moment. Is this a PCI NIC, or is this an integrated NIC on a motherboard?
If this is one of those NICs that is integrated onto a motherboard, then cromutil and ether-diag will likely not work. That is because whereas the PCI card has a piece of flash memory on it that is accessible and programmable, there MBA code for the motherboard is probably in the system BIOS flash, which is a very different thing. If the PXE code is part of the BIOS flash, you probably want to use the PXE->Etherboot chaining method, which was "Door Number 3" in my previous message, or alternatively PXELINUX, which was "Door Number 2"
So, what's the deal? Is this a PCI NIC card, or is this one of those "DELL/random-other-vendor deals where the NIC has no flash, but is has the PCI IDs of a card that does have flash, but the actual flash code is in the BIOS because, well we had room there, and we are a large enough vendor to get the special OEM version of the 3COM card, and permission to embed the MBA in our BIOS" kind of situations.
You can still use Etherboot, but flashing would require modifying your BIOS, which is harder, and is a different process. We have people on the list who have replaced PXE with Etherboot in various BIOSes, but it's not an easy thing to do, and you might be better off using a different method to achieve the result. Which is what the .lzpxe/.zpxe formats are all about.
Anyway, let us know...
Marty
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