My EPROM experience

1. I investigated which is the most common NIC, rtl8139 is considered the cheap kind of reliable NIC, it is widely used and in my case, the first 2 computer stores did not have it but the third did, and when buying, be carefull, open all NIC boxes and make sure there is a slot for your EPROM 8)
2. Then I got the EPROM, I went downtown to the electronics street (it 2 blocks full of similar businesses), I asked for 27c128, they told me they did not have it, but they did have 27c256m, I told them I wanted that! 8) ....they had with window and window less, the window is for erasing them with a light, the store had the erased and took 30 minutes to erase them
3. I got my boot ROM, from www.romomatic.net. In my case I chose my NIC model and "Binary ROM image (.lzrom)".
4. Then I went to another electronics store that DID have an EEPROM recorded, who charged me $2USD dollars for recording my eb.ROM image from floppy to the EPROM chip 8)
5. Last but not least, I booted a computer with my NIC with the installed EPROM from floppy and ran the NICs setup utility, I selected BOOTROM and 32K something, I dont recall what hehe
   • btw, in this step, I got the MAC adress for my card, and wrote it to a POST-IT piece of paper, cut it with out and put in on the NIC with its assigned name
   • the name "audi" you see on the picture, is the speciffic name for this NIC and this unique MAC address, so the next workstation coul be "jaguar" and so on
6. A good last step, is to make a list of MAC adresses related to asigned names and put it on a web server so you wont get names messed up all the time 8)