Fw: how to download secondary to RAM

[William Tai]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "william" <williamt at arescom.com>
To: "Jouni Malinen" <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>
Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:53 PM
Subject: Re: how to download secondary to RAM


>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>
> To: <hostap at shmoo.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2003 6:22 PM
> Subject: Re: how to download secondary to RAM
>
>
> > On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 06:06:44PM -0700, William Tai wrote:
> >
> > >    What flag, -r, -g or -p, should I use to download secondary
firmware
> to
> > > RAM?
> >
> > -r with optionally adding -p if you want to make the download persistent
> > over hw_reset of the wlan card.
> >
> > >    What difference among these three flags?
> > >          -p   persistent mode for volatile download
> > >          -r   download SREC file into RAM (volatile)
> > >         -g   download SREC file into RAM (volatile in Genesis mode)
> > >    What is persistent mode and genesisi mode?
> >
> > Persistent mode is an extra option that can be added to RAM download (-r
> > or -g). It instructs the driver to keep a copy of the downloaded
> > firmware image in host memory and automatically reload that image if the
> > wlan card is resetted. Without this option, the card will return to the
> > firmware image loaded from flash in case of such a hw_reset. The image
> > is lost when unloading the driver, so the download is still volatile in
> > that sense.
> >
> > Genesis mode is a special mode in which the Prism2/2.5/3 card is started
> > without completing the firmware initialization. It is needed for
> > downloading the primary firmware image into RAM. It requires new (as in,
> > not hfa3841-based Prism2) card (or hardware modifications with
> > hfa3841-based cards).
> >
> Thanx for the valuable information.
> So if I just want to download secondary to RAM with persistent mode, just
> use -r + -p, right?
> BTW, can I only download secondary F/W ro RAM?
>
>
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> > Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA
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