[RESOLVED] Agilent MSO8104A with corrupted NIC SPROM

[Jwalling]

Does anyone have a utility to re-program the NIC SPROM in a DSO8104A? This one has been corrupted for some reason.
This is the Adlink M-880 Nitro motherboard with an Intel 82573E NIC.

Thanks.

[0xfede]

Hi Jay,

I don't know if this helps/apply in your case but I remembered that there is a linux script for flashing the 82573E EEPROM that uses ethtool:
http://e1000.sourceforge.net/files/fixeep-82573-dspd.sh

Just my 2 cents.

Best,
0xfede

EDIT:
a couple of dumps that I found on the internet of 82573 EEPROM:
Offset Values
------ ------
0x0000 00 0e 0c 4c 50 18 00 02 ff ff 01 20 ff ff ff ff
0x0010 92 c3 03 26 0b 64 76 11 86 80 76 10 86 80 04 b2
0x0020 dd 20 55 55 00 00 90 2f 00 32 12 00 20 1e 12 00
0x0030 20 1e 12 00 20 1e 12 00 20 1e 09 00 00 02 80 00
0x0040 0c 00 a6 93 0b 28 00 00 00 04 ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0050 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 02 06
0x0060 2c 01 00 40 10 12 07 40 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0070 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff c4 57


Offset      Values
------      ------
0x0000      00 0a e4 3e ce 74 30 0b b2 ff 51 00 ff ff ff ff
0x0010      53 00 03 02 6b 02 7e 20 aa 17 9a 10 86 80 df 80
0x0020      00 00 00 20 54 7e 00 00 14 00 da 00 04 00 00 27
0x0030      c9 6c 50 31 3e 07 0b 04 8b 29 00 00 00 f0 02 0f
0x0040      08 10 00 00 04 0f ff 7f 01 4d ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0050      14 00 1d 00 14 00 1d 00 af aa 1e 00 00 00 1d 00
0x0060      00 01 00 40 1f 12 07 40 ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff
0x0070      ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff ff 4a e0

[Jwalling]

Thanks for the dumps, that may be of use. As for anything Linux, I'm a total idiot and that's not likely to change anytime soon!
I was hoping to find an MS-DOS based tool...

Someone contacted my by email and mentioned the "Intel 82573 NVM tools" and "Administrative Tools for Intel Network Adapters"
I'll see what that turns up.

[Jwalling]

Success!

Using the Intel "Administrative Tools for Intel® Network Adapters"
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/4237/Administrative-Tools-for-Intel-Network-Adapters

There is a program in \APPS\TOOLS\IOUtil\DOS called IOUTIL.EXE
I ran the program with the following arguments: ioutil /nic=1 /E
The program stated that the NIC was enabled now and a re-boot was required.
After rebooting it works fine with XP as well as MS-DOS NDIS networking which I use for imaging.

The only odd this is that the MAC address is now pretty weird: 88 88 88 88 87 88
I can live with that, as it does not seem to have any impact that I can see.

Thanks to JS my former co-worker - you are 3lite!  (and underpaid...) 

[Jwalling]

Update: I'm able to use the WinXP Intel NIC applet (under advanced config) to set the correct MAC address as indicated on the I/O connector, and it persists after a power cycle just fine.

In MS-DOS it remains mostly 88, but I don't think that matters.