[LinuxBIOS] Willem EEPROM Programmer

[roger]

On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 00:02 -0400, Corey Osgood wrote:

> BTW, anyone have experience with using a Willem EEPROM programmer under
> linux? I haven't been able to get the darn thing to work through wine,
> nor will it work on Vista. I'm starting to wonder if it's just a bum unit.

I believe there is something called firebrand that will write using the
parallel part.  And contacting sales at the main store selling those
things, I was recommended using the parallel port one vs the usb one --
probably because the only s/w support is firebrand.

The only reason I needed a Willem programmer was in case I couldn't get
the i440bx board flashing flash parts in Linux.  Another idea, I got
working, was a FreeDOS LiveCD bootdisk with the popular "UniFlash"
DOS/Pascal based flash writer.  (Hated the time wasting idea of
rebooting though.)

Other then this, my impression is the Willem Programmers are basically
bricks until somebody adds some code to firebrand for USB support.
 
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Sun May 13 21:21:13 PDT 2007