Intel(R) NVMCHECK Release Notes =============================== September 25, 2012 DISCLAIMER ========== This software is furnished under license and may only be used or copied in accordance with the terms of the license. The information in this manual is furnished for informational use only, is subject to change without notice, and should not be construed as a commitment by Intel Corporation. Intel Corporation assumes no responsibility or liability for any errors or inaccuracies that may appear in this document or any software that may be provided in association with this document. Except as permitted by such license, no part of this document may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without the express written consent of Intel Corporation. Contents ======== - OVERVIEW - RUNNING THE UTILITY - OPTIONS - BASIC USAGE GUIDELINES - INSTALLATION - CUSTOMER SUPPORT -LEGAL INFORMATION OVERVIEW ======== NVMCHECK verifies that the NVM image is an authentic image. RUNNING THE UTILITY =================== Using the "/?" option will display a list of supported command line options. OPTIONS: -------- NVMCHECK can be run with any of the following command line options: /HELP or /? Displays command line help. /VERSION Displays the tool version and Quartzville SDK information. /DEVICES Displays the device list. /NIC=XX Selects a specific device (1-32). /VERIFY Verifies the NVM signature of the selected device. Technical support options: /HEADER Displays the NVM header of the selected device. /KEY Displays the NVM key of the selected device. BASIC USAGE GUIDELINES ---------------------- To display a list of installed adapters call NVMCHECK using the /DEVICES option. NVMCHECK will display a list of network adapters installed in the system similar to the following: NIC Bus Dev Fun Vendor-Device MAC ENA === === === === ============= ================= === 1 1 00 00 8086-1533 00-21-6A-1b-50-82 YES 2 8 00 00 8086-1521 00-24-7E-15-25-21 N/A 3 4 00 00 8086-1535 00-25-90-6C-32-20 NO To perform an operation on an installed network adapter you must specify the "/NIC=" parameter. For example, to verify the NVM on NIC 1 from the list above call EEUPDATE like this: NVMCHECK /NIC=1 /VERIFY The tool will return: NVM Integrity verification [PASSED/FAILED] Installation ============= INSTALLING THE TOOLS ON MICROSOFT WINDOWS* ========================================== The tools driver can be installed on all versions of Microsoft Windows* since Windows 7. To install the tools' drivers on Windows, run install.bat from the appropriate directory on the CD. Although the tools are not installed with install.bat, the driver that the tools require is copied into the local machine Windows driver directory. To run the tools, launch a Command Prompt window from the Windows Start Menu. Go to the media and directory where the tools are located and run the tools. The readme files for each tool are found in the same directory as the tools. These tools can be manually installed on the local hard drive in any directory. The tool uses its own driver file (not the same as the system network driver). If the driver sys file already exists in the drivers directory, install.bat may fail to copy. Using the /y switch with install.bat will override and copy the driver file regardless. However, this can be dangerous if an older version of the driver is being used by another application such as Intel(R) PROset for Windows Device Manager. If a driver is already present in the drivers directory, try running the tool from the command prompt. If it runs, then the driver is fine. The tool will not run if the driver version present does not match the driver version expected. Note that for Windows 7 (and later), the user must have access to the %systemroot%\system32\drivers directory. Only the administrator account has these privileges. The user must be logged in as administrator or the tools must be "run as" administrator. Note that on Windows, any device that is disabled in device manager will not be accessible by tools due to no memory resources. You would get an error code 0xC86A800E. To solve this problem, you can do one of the following: 1) Re-enable the device in device manager. Never disable this device when using tools. 2) Install an NDIS device driver for the device and make sure that it does not have a yellow or red bang by it in device manager. 3) Delete the device from device manager and restart the system. The install new hardware wizard should appear on next reboot. Do not cancel this. Just move the window aside and run the tool(s). Generally, you can click "cancel" on the wizard but there are some cases where Windows will disable the memory resources causing you to get back into the same state. INSTALLING THE TOOLS ON EFI ============================== The tools support Intel(R) EFI v1.10. There is no installation required for EFI tools. The tools can simply be copied to the drive that they will run from. Note that while EFI supports USB drives, there may be issues running tools from the USB drive. Whether or not there are issues are BIOS specific. If issues are experienced, the tool should be run from hard disk instead. INSTALLING THE TOOLS ON DOS =========================== The tools support various DOS versions from Windows XP DOS (reached by creating a DOS boot disk in the explorer GUI) to FreeDOS. There is no installation required for DOS tools. The tools can simply be copied from the DOS directory on the CD to the drive that they will run from. It is expected that the tools have a clean boot environment. The tools will not run with memory managers and/or DOS networking drivers loaded. The tools expect that they have full, unlimited control of the hardware. The tools *WILL NOT* run properly if EMM386 is present. The tools run in protected mode, 32-bit DOS. Therefore, they will not be compatible with any TSR programs. INSTALLING THE TOOLS ON LINUX* ============================== In order to run tools on Linux*, a driver stub must be built and installed on the system. This driver is not related to the network device driver that is used to run the network during live traffic. It is a separate driver used explicitly for tools. Due to the nature of Linux with the number of kernels that can exist, we provide source for the driver module and an install script to build/install it. The tools support Linux distributions based on kernels 2.6.x. Validation is done randomly on popular distributions such as Red Hat* or Suse*. Configured kernel source that matches the currently installed kernel is required. A working GCC is also required. There are some versions of GCC that had a bug which did not support unnamed structures. These versions of GCC are not supported. If you have compilation errors, try updating your version of GCC. If you have linker errors when installing the driver, you should update your kernel - download the latest stable off www.kernel.org and build/install it. Note that some distributions such as recent Fedora core versions do not ship with Kernel source. You must download, install, and configure the source in order to get the tools' driver built on this OS. Installing the kernel source RPM does not solve the problem. This is the installation procedure for the RPM package: 1. Log in as root. 2. Copy the RPM package (iqvlinux-.noarch.rpm) to the home directory. 3. CD to the home directory and run command: rpm -i iqvlinux-.noarch.rpm. 4. Copy the tools that you want to use from the appropriate directory of the CD. CUSTOMER SUPPORT ================ - Main Intel web support site: http://support.intel.com - Network products information: http://www.intel.com/network Legal / Disclaimers =================== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel Corporation assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in this document. Nor does Intel make any commitment to update the information contained herein. Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and/or other countries. * Other product and corporate names may be trademarks of other companies and are used only for explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe.