Re: [flashrom] 3Com 3C905-TX Support

[Bruno Rocca]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks for your help and your time, I have tested the new .exe but flashrom can't detect any flash/eeprom chip on the NIC. I tested AMD and SST chips (DIP32 and PLCC32 with an adapter). I have the same card as Idwer, same model, same revision. Maybe this card was not meant for updating the chip, after all, or maybe the card is blocking write access to the flash chip.

Thank you again, if you need help testing another NIC and Flash chips, just let me know.

Regards,

Bruno Rocca

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De: "Stefan Tauner" 
Enviado: 9 de julio de 2015 3:00 AM
Para: "Bruno Rocca" 
Cc: [e-mail]
Asunto: Re: [flashrom] 3Com 3C905-TX Support

On Wed, 8 Jul 2015 23:24:52 -0500
Bruno Rocca  wrote:
> Good evening, I have used flashrom for DOS on two NICs (Realtek and Intel) and have successfully flashed 128KB chips (AMD and SST). I also have a 3Com 3C905-TX, but flashrom does not support it. The vendor ID is 10B7 and the device ID is 9050. Is there any way to force flashrom to flash with this NIC? I hope this can be done. Thank you very much for your help, flashrom is an excelent tool.

Hi,

there is a pci programmer parameter to select one of multiple PCI
devices but I don't think there is a way to force the driver to use it,
if it does not in its list of supported devices.
I am not exactly sure why we have never added the ID. I think Idwer had
problem with his model, but apparently someone has used the following
patch successfully but it was not merged.
http://patchwork.coreboot.org/patch/4086/raw/

I have applied a similar patch (attached) and built a DOS executable
for you:
http://buildbot.flashrom.org/buildresults/flashrom-000180-Hie/dos/flashrom.e...
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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner