Dead card after wrong pda and firmware flashing

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 11:32:12AM +0100, don wrote:

> I have a dead hfa3841 card that failed during a reflash. I've never
> heard of genesis mode before but a look around the net has provided some
> sketchy information. It seems that if the hfa3841 chip powers up with a
> 10k pull up from the MD11 pin to the 3.3 volt rail then it goes into ram
> load mode instead of reading the flash rom.

I don't remember which pin it was, but yes, that sounds about correct. I
have such hardware modification in one PC Card slot (dip switch for
selecting normal operations or pull up for Genesis mode), but I haven't
yet had enough time to implement code for flashing in genesis mode.

> Is the above correct? If so, would it be possible to use a card with
> defunct flash memory by wiring up the pull up resistor and then loading
> the firmware directly into ram using prism2_srec?

That should be possible, but not with current prism2_srec/Host AP
driver.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA