MCB,
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<br />Can you do this for, say, a machine with an onboard card with a ROM, and an add-In card without a ROM?
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<br />Best,
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<br />Matt
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<br />On , Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk> wrote:
<br />> On Wednesday 07 Dec 2011 01:38:57 Oliver Rath wrote:
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<br />> > On the old gpxe-sites (
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<br />> > http://etherboot.org/wiki/wirelessboot#burning_wireless_gpxe_into_a_rom
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<br />> > ) they're writing, that a wired card as "rom carrier" is needed, because
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<br />> > wireless cards don't have an own flashable rom onboard.
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<br />> > Now, if im using the e1000/pl card (which is also onboad at this nice
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<br />> > esprimo 5010 boxes) for burning the atheros rom in it, am i able to boot
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<br />> > via wireless lan? Is the wired card nevertheless useable in this case?
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<br />> You can try creating a dual-driver ROM. For example:
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<br />> make bin/8086100f--ath9k.rom
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<br />> would give you a ROM with support for e1000 and ath9k, with the ROM PCI IDs
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<br />> set to 8086:100f (which needs to match the NIC that actually holds the ROM).
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<br />> Michael
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