Re: Unusable Realtek NIC after upgrading to NetBSD 9

[Vincent DEFERT <20.100%defert.com@localhost>]

I have extracted it using Engrampa and made a tgz archive with the files 
in it.
You can download it here: http://defert.com/tmp/sp66770.tgz

There's a .bin file in it, I think it's all you need on your USB stick.

On 17/09/2020 10:52, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> On set 17  8:55, Vincent DEFERT wrote:
> > You could try opening the firmware update's executable as an archive
> > (they are often SFX - self-extracting ZIP archives),
> > extract its contents to a FAT-formatted USB pen drive,
> > reboot the laptop with the pen drive attached
> > and enter the BIOS firmware flash utility (often the F7 key).
> This is a good advice, which can be useful for similar cases. As regards
> my laptop, the file is
>
> https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp66501-67000/sp66770.exe
>
> (yes, the Compaq BIOS update is distributed by HP, it sounded weird to
> me, too).
> I tried to extract it with GUI `Ark' on Linux, with CLI `unrar' and by
> executing the file itself, after renaming it as `sfx', as suggested
> here:
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/79074
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/115655
>
> It didn't work, so maybe it's a different format.