mini-HOWTO on upgrading flash firmware

[Jun Sun]

On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 06:40:07PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Jun Sun wrote:
> 
> > I finished upgrading a couple of my cards.  I wrote a page
> > that describes what I have done.  Hopefully people later will have
> > a much easier time than I had.
> >
> > http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/index.html
> 
> Thank you for taking time!  A few additions and corrections.  Feel free
> not to include them if they are irrelevant to your document.  It's just
> for your information.
> 
> I put slightly improved version of prism2dl here:
> http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/prism2dl/
> 
> It should be easier to use, but it's not _safer_ to use than the original
> version.  In particular, it still allows flashing firmware intended for
> RAM download.
> 
> Upgrading primary firmware without secondary firmware make the card
> non-functional.  That card acts as if it only has primary firmware.  The
> secondary firmware should be flashed after that.  prism2dl is good for
> that, prism2_srec is not (yet).  I haven't tried winupdate.  The DOS based
> flash.exe should be OK.
> 
> prism2_srec cannot be used to upgrade primary firmware because it cannot
> upgrade both firmwares in the same time and it cannot deal with a card
> without working secondary firmware.
> 
> You probably should specify what Windows driver should be installed.
> winupdate is picky.  I know that the driver for Linksys WPC11 v2.5 is OK.
>

Thanks.  Comments are taken.
 
> The latest primary firmware for USB devices appears to be 1.1.2, but it's
> not available for other devices.
>

Can winupdate.exe upgrade USB devices too?  Just curious.

Jun