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Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 15:45:55 +0200 (MEST)
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From: Erik Starback <erik@math.uu.se>
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To: netboot@baghira.han.de
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Subject: Netboot with Intel EEPRO100+ Management
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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.990518154313.3875A-100000@anarchy.math.uu.se>
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Status: O
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X-Status:
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Hello!
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When Intel eepro100+ NIC disappeared from the market, I didn't know
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what to do. I didn't find any information if anyone has used the
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new eepro100+ Management Adapter to netboot linux.
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I thought that the card should netboot with the same configuration as
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the old card when I read Donald Beckers comment:
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> The driver should "just work" with the '559. It's not supposed to be
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> substantially different than the '558. (I don't have a datasheet
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> or sample card to confirm this statement.)
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The problem was now only to put the netboot-program to the built in
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flash memory on the NIC. With the old card I used a flash memory (Intel
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N28F020 [N28010 didn't work])) and the program FUTIL.EXE from Intel to
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flash it. FUTIL did't recognize the memory on the management card
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and did not work therefore.
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I found the intel program FBOOT.EXE that was made to upgrade the built
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in Intel BOOT agent. I did: Boot dos from floppy, Run FBOOT (choose
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adapter), choose (u)pdate, choose Create restore image, rename the
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backup file (in my case 2743BE52.FLS [the eight last hex digits from
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the MAC address]), rename your netboot code (in my case netboot 0.8.1)
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to the backup files original name (in my case 2743BE52.FLS), run
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FBOOT, choose (r)estore.
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Voila!
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A shorter way (if you don't need the backup of the old Intel BOOT
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agent code) is of course: rename netboot file to [the eight last hex
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digits from the MAC address].FLS, run FBOOT, choose restore.
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Caution: I think it is possible to make a NIC unusable if you have
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made the netboot (or etherboot) file with "wrong" parameters. A couple
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of month ago I did a etherboot boot file and put it on an old
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EEPRO100+ card. It worked fine, but it was impossible to boot local
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with it. So I could not boot dos and with FUTIL or FBOOT erase the
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flash memory! To erase the chip I had to take out the memory chip,
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boot dos and then put in the memory chip. This isn't possible when the
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memory chip is build in.
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Links:
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<http://support.intel.com/support/landesk/configmgr/LSA1_193.HTM>
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FUTIL.EXE is a part of LSA1_193.ZIP
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<http://support.intel.com/support/etherexpress/pro100/100pboot.htm>
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FBOOT.EXE is a part of 100pboot.exe
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/Erik S
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Erik Starb<72>ck, System administrator E-mail address: erik@math.uu.se
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Uppsala University Telephone (o): +46 18 4713277
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Department of Mathematics Cellular phone: +46 70 4250260
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P. O. Box 480 Fax (o): +46 18 4713201
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SE-751 06 UPPSALA
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Sweden
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