responding to both emails at once... Luc Verhaegen wrote: > 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. >>
I've had a look at firebrand, but the problem is it only supports a few 27xxx model EEPROMs. No good when I'm trying to flash a 29F002, and I personally don't feel like rewriting it, at least not at the moment. I did find some info on getting the windows software to work with wine on some willem forum, but it keeps telling me the device can't be found. > > 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. > Too late, bought it about a month ago. Flashrom doesn't work on this particular board, and besides, a dedicated programmer *should* be faster than booting up, flashing, and then rebooting (unless you stripped a distro down to nothing just for that purpose). It's almost guaranteed that it'd be faster than this system: boot up, copy rom from usb to floppy, reboot from disk, flash, reboot again. Also, I bought it from a canadian company (mcumall), and through ebay, no dealings with any dutch companies ;) Afaik, the Willem schematics are free for the taking, so anyone can build and/or sell one. I think I'm about to find a windows 98se cd and install that on whatever I can find, and see if this thing actually does work. -Corey -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
