can't read PDA or update firmware

[Andy Lutomirski]

Jouni Malinen wrote:

 > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:09:53AM -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
 >
 >
 >>I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 2011B (PCI), and I can't flash my firmware:
 >
 >
 >>wifi0: trying to read PDA from 0x007f0000: failed
 >>wifi0: trying to read PDA from 0x003f0000: failed
 >>wifi0: trying to read PDA from 0x00390000: failed
 >
 >
 > The driver did not find a valid PDA data in the standard locations.
 > Could you please run following commands and send me the aux-00* dump
 > files so that I can take a closer look at what may be wrong with the
 > PDA?
 >
 > AUXF=/proc/net/hostap/wlan0/aux_dump
 > dd if=$AUXF of=aux-00390000 bs=1k count=1 skip=3648
 > dd if=$AUXF of=aux-003F0000 bs=1k count=1 skip=4032
 > dd if=$AUXF of=aux-007F0000 bs=1k count=1 skip=8128
 >

# dd if=$AUXF of=aux-00390000 bs=1k count=1 skip=3648
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=$AUXF of=aux-003F0000 bs=1k count=1 skip=4032
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=$AUXF of=aux-007F0000 bs=1k count=1 skip=8128
1+0 records in
1+0 records out

aux-00390000 looks like a random chunk of physical memory.  Maybe the 
driver is not reading the card's memory correctly?

--Andy
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