[flashrom] flashing BIOS using flashrom on ASUS M2N-SLI DELUXE

adrian.glaubitz at googlemail.com adrian.glaubitz at googlemail.com
Tue May 11 16:05:47 CEST 2010


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 03:59:46PM +0200, Kasper M. Nielsen wrote:
> hi Adrian
> 
> I don't know if the Ethernet MAC address has changed since the BIOS
> flash, as I don't know what it was before. Does this look like the MAC
> your Ethernet got after the flash? 
> 
> MAC: 04:4B:80:80:80:03

Ok, then it is always set to the same hardware address obviously. Mine
reads the same:

glaubitz at z6:~> /sbin/ifconfig |grep HWaddr
br0       Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 04:4b:80:80:80:03  
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 04:4b:80:80:80:03  
glaubitz at z6:~> 

Obviously not a good thing :/. At least we should know where the
address can be found in the ROM image to correct it afterwards.

Btw, there is supposed to be an AWARD flash utility from the mainboard
vendor which allows to re-set the mac address. Have you tried this
one? I think AWDFLASH.EXE can be used with a special option for that.

> 
> but I can confirm that the board/computer wouldn't boot before a
> reset-to-factory-defaults was done. I figured that it was standart
> procedure after a BIOS flash, since it had to been done with my laptop
> as well.

Well, I didn't know that so I started to panic a bit since my machine
wouldn't come up again. It didn't boot until I reset the CMOS.

But good to know that my board still works well ;).


Hilse fra Oslo,

Adrian




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