18 May
2005
18 May
'05
12:04 a.m.
On Tue, 17 May 2005, YhLu wrote:
don't need,
- good hw design should use one serial EEPROM to store MAC address, So when
flash the BIOS, the EEPROM is still there.
yes, but there were some sis-630 based cards several years ago that stored MAC in FLASH and CMOS.
SO to upgrade FLASH: - make sure address is in cmos - write flash - write MAC back to flash.
There are some stupid designs out there.
ron