[Soekris] 4526 - onboard flash question

[Matt Peterson]

Correct, it's PXE boot.  Run two Cat5s down, one for PoE/Ethernet and 
the other for console.  Bring a laptop with DHCP server, etc.

mike-soekris at tiedyenetworks.com wrote:
> Howdy,
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> 	I've been using the 4511 quite sucessfully for wireless CPE gear 
> and I'm looking now at the 4526 as a cheaper alternitive. The cost savings 
> are attractive because we don't need more than 1 ethernet, don't need 
> pcmcia, and since it's got flash onboard we don't need a seperate cf 
> card. In the field and just here in the lab testing, if I hose the CF for 
> whatever reason (misconfigure it and lock myself out, for example), I can 
> just pop in a new card and reflash the old one thru and ide-cf adaptor in 
> my laptop. How would I reflash a screwed up 4526 if it came down to it? Is 
> it a PXE boot thing (where I boot off the ethernet and have something 
> re-write the flash for me) or is there some other bios diagnostic tool to 
> do this?
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