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Firmware for 3Com EtherLink III 3C509B?

AllGamer

AllGamer

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Hi all

I'm having a hard time locating a Firmware flash for a 3Com EtherLink III 3C509B to repair 2 old NICs

That was an old EISA & ISA NIC card, it was the fastest of its time 100 Mbps in an era when 10 Mbps was the normal.

Please ping me if you come across a flashable firmware

Thanks
 
I've got some full-length 3C501s ... discrete components, some 2012s, 503s, a basket-full of IBM TR cards, some Fore Systems ATM NICS (fiber and copper 155), a few LatticeNet cards, a couple 8, 16, 32, and 64K static memory cards (S100) ... I can't seem to make myself part with the old junk pile.

I'm waiting for my back to un-knot itself so I can de-rack and toss an old PowerHub and some ATM switches (Two generations of ASX-200s, a Jalapeno (pizzabox ATM/Ethernet edge)) and some other crap.
 
Since when do NICs require firmware for operation? I thought that the eeprom was only for BIOS/PXE/etc support. Everything other than boot support is handled by drivers.
 
Hmm, I never thought of putting SLIC into a LAN card's boot rom, interesting. (I have some Gig PCI ethernet cards with ROM slots, maybe I could use those.)
 
Seen posts were people use intel roms as bootloaders to bypass windows activation.
You can edit and and add lines of what ever you want to in intel roms
 
Yep! Windows 7 is the easiest OS (That uses product activation) to hack/crack for activation
Just ask me as I am too cheap to buy 3 copies of the OS (Being one for each of my 3 computers, I bought Ultimate for my main computer and I used readily available tools to install/activate it on my other two computers
 
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