Parallel PCI card?
Robert L. Harris
A friend of mine just bought a "LAVA" dual parallel PCI card. This will
help him with his parallel burner, zip and printer. I was helping
him look at the kernel and I'm not see'ing a place to enable this, and
he says he didn't see the device being detected.
Robert
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Thomas S. Iversen
I'm in the progress of porting uniflash 1.17b from PASCALto C (and
hopefully, eventually to linux),
If you don't know uniflash, I can tell you that it's a freeware flash-util
made in PASCAL by Pascal van Leeuwen and Galkowski, see:
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pvanleeuwen/ufhome.htm
Well, now to the things that I stumbled accros:
- All flashers I have used, has required the user not to run in
protected mode. Is there any reasons for this. Or put in another
way: Is it possible to flash the bios from an protected mode
environment (eg. linux)?
- Uniflash gives the user the possibility of backing up the CMOS
ram before flashing, and then restoring it afterwards. Seeing various
sourcefiles in linux tells me that it would be a problem (due to time.c
writting to CMOS every 11. minute). Is there any way to get around
this?
Anything else you think might be relevant would be really nice to hear
about.
Yours
Thomas S. Iversen
zens...@diku.dk
Dept. of computer science - copenhagen, denmark.
Tim Waugh
> A friend of mine just bought a "LAVA" dual parallel PCI card. This
> will help him with his parallel burner, zip and printer. I was
> helping him look at the kernel and I'm not see'ing a place to enable
> this, and he says he didn't see the device being detected.
It's supported in 2.2.14, and current 2.3.x.
Tim.
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Alan Cox
> way: Is it possible to flash the bios from an protected mode
> environment (eg. linux)?
If you are careful. Someone did a flash bios programmer for Linux for some
chipsets, and people have written flash pcmcia drivers
> - Uniflash gives the user the possibility of backing up the CMOS
> ram before flashing, and then restoring it afterwards. Seeing various
> sourcefiles in linux tells me that it would be a problem (due to time.c
> writting to CMOS every 11. minute). Is there any way to get around
> this?
It should be fine to let it update
Ronald G. Minnich
> - All flashers I have used, has required the user not to run in
> protected mode. Is there any reasons for this. Or put in another
> way: Is it possible to flash the bios from an protected mode
> environment (eg. linux)?
yes it is. Go to the openbios web page and follow the link to devbios.
The reason for dos-mode flashers is quite ugly, I can get into it if
anyone cares. But it's gross.
funny but true: support guy at intel tells me they now have to ship disks
that unpack a dos-image to a floppy, not just unpacks files to a bootable
dos floppy, since so few people can format a floppy that boots dos
anymore. They're running NT or something else.
> - Uniflash gives the user the possibility of backing up the CMOS
> ram before flashing, and then restoring it afterwards. Seeing various
> sourcefiles in linux tells me that it would be a problem (due to time.c
> writting to CMOS every 11. minute). Is there any way to get around
> this?
Are you talking about BIOS flash memory or CMOS ram? CMOS ram is easy.
Flash is easy on many boxes. Flash is very hard on certain motherboards
(L440GX+ :-) because Intel is hiding something. They told me so in person
:-)
ron
Chris Adams
>funny but true: support guy at intel tells me they now have to ship disks
>that unpack a dos-image to a floppy, not just unpacks files to a bootable
>dos floppy, since so few people can format a floppy that boots dos
>anymore. They're running NT or something else.
Matrox video card flash updaters do that too. They use FreeDOS.
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