Hello. I have an old Toshiba Laptop with an Intel pro/100 8255x controller NIC. Recently the PXE-BOOTP stopped working with this message: ""PXE-E05: Lan adapter's configuration is corrupted or has not been initialized. The Boot Agent cannot continue.". There's also no NIC visible when the linux system boots up on the laptop.
I have downloaded the preeboot.tar.gz file from Intel's download page, and ran "$ APPS/BootUtil/Linux32/DRIVER/install", which completed without any error.
If understand correctly, I must re-flash the PXE-ROM with bootutil32 in order to restore the PXE-BOOTP capability of the NIC. But what I get is:
# ./bootutil32 => Port / 1, Network-Addr / MAC^, Location / 2.08.0, Series / 10-100, WIOL / NA, Flash / FLASH, Firmware / Not Present
# ./bootutil32 -NIC=1 -up -file=../BootIMG.FLB => "Option ROM area in the flash is not suported for this device on port 1"
Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong and how I can correct this problem?
Thanks & Regards.