On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 09:28:39PM -0700, roger wrote: > 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. > > -- > Roger
I don't have too good an experience with willem.org. * It's not a registered company, there's no VAT number. Since the proprietor is dutch, he should have a VAT number, yet he doesn't. This is really selling things out of the back of a truck here. For your average consumer, this makes little difference. But for me, i paid dutch VAT which i can't reclaim, this money also comes out of taxed income now, so not fun at all. The overhead to create and run a small company in a country like .nl shouldn't be too great. But this person just installed oscommerce and thought that that was it. One day .nl VAT/taxes will catch up with him. * It took a very very long while for my programmer to be delivered, in the end, another model was sent. Paid 28/01, received 12/03. Eindhoven, where this person is based, is about 120kms away. As for the hardware: * usb is at most only there as a powersupply. Which is not correct as the amps drawn should be negotiated between host and endpoint. There's no means to negotiate anything. Yes, people abuse usb like this a lot. * As far as i understood the willem, from a quick look at it, you still shift in a bit at a time, which makes the willem _extremely_ slow. To be honest, i haven't needed it yet, hotswapping is much much faster anyway and hasn't gone wrong yet. So don't bother. You're only throwing money away. Just buy some roms. Luc Verhaegen. -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
