Firmware STA 1.5.4, R1010504.HEX

[Jacques Caron]

Two things...

1. Aren't those two images in flash on the card? Which means that once 
updated with the Windows driver, you should be able to move it to a Linux 
box and still have the updated firmware images?
2. What about extracting the images from the Windows driver file? I've 
never looked at a firmware image, but the driver (PRISMNDS.SYS) contains a 
bunch of lines like:
S40500003A7E42
S311FF200000050001001500010001000100B1
S313FF2000000600020000000300010004000400B9
S313FF2000000600020001000200020001000100BE
S30BFF200000020003000000D0
S311FF200000050004000A800000010000003B
[...]
S317FF2000000700018041463031303130312E484558000084
S705003F0000BB
S311FF00000003000000B8127E000C00000098
[...]
S311FF100000FE177E0002000000000000004A
S315007E0000006490FF00F720FE006491FF01F720FE5A
S315007E0010006492FF02F720FE006493FF03F720FE42
[...]

Which look very much like firmware flashing instructions to me :-) Of 
course, once would have to find which bits are each of the two images, but 
anybody familiar with the firmware file format should be able to find that 
pretty easily... Actually, a very very quick look at those lines seems to 
indicate that it includes the images for:
AF010101.HEX
AB010101.HEX
PM010101.HEX
R1010504.HEX
RF010504.HEX
RU010504.HEX

(grep S317FF20000007 on the file and decode the hex and you should get the 
above)

Don't ask me what they are, though :-) And I have no idea either of the 
whereabouts of the primary firmware, but I believe it didn't change the one 
you had on the card, probably for some compatibility issue... Wild guess: 
it has images for primary 1.1.1 and station 1.5.4 for three different types 
of cards?

Just my 0.02 EUR...

Jacques.

At 18:13 15/10/2002, Robert Miano wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just noticed that running the most recent Windows driver from
>Intersil (ISL3PRDSUIT-EXE_WIN_(2-0-7).exe) downloads version STA 1.5.4
>onto my COMPAQ WL100.
>
>Now I wonder if there's a way to save the card's RAM into a hex file
>for use with "prism2_srec -r" under Linux.
>
>According to Intersil's WinUpdate, the filenames are as follows:
>
>Primary: 0.3.0 P40003C0.HEX
>Station: 1.5.4 R1010504.HEX
>
>Maybe there's somebody who has the latter?
>
>Thanks,
>
>R.
>
>
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