RAM firmware 1.7.6 and 1.8.0

[Jiri Fojtasek]

Pavel Roskin wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I have been advised by private e-mail that the drivers in
>http://download.eagletec.com/ET-CWB1000/ contain version 1.8.0 of Intersil
>firmware.  Indeed, I could extract files ru010706.hex and rf010800.hex
>from both files.
>
>ru010706.hex is 1.7.6 firmware for USB devices (maybe for some other new
>cards as well, I don't know).  rf010800.hex is 1.8.0 firmware for Prism
>2.5.  Both are RAM downloadable.
>
>Included file name: ru010706.hex
>Component: 0x001f 1.7.6 (station firmware)
>Supported platforms:
>  0x800a 1.0.0,  0x800f 1.0.0,  0x8010 1.0.0,  0x8011 1.0.0,  0x801e 1.0.0
>  0x801f 1.0.0,  0x8020 1.0.0,  0x8025 1.0.0,  0x8026 1.0.0,  0x8027 1.0.0
>
>Included file name: RF010800.hex
>Component: 0x001f 1.8.0 (station firmware)
>Supported platforms:
>  0x800a 1.0.0,  0x800b 1.0.0,  0x800c 1.0.0,  0x800d 1.0.0,  0x8012 1.0.0
>  0x8013 1.0.0,  0x8014 1.0.0,  0x8016 1.0.0,  0x8017 1.0.0,  0x8018 1.0.0
>  0x801a 1.0.0,  0x801b 1.0.0,  0x801c 1.0.0,  0x8021 1.0.0,  0x8022 1.0.0
>  0x8023 1.0.0,  0x800a 1.0.0,  0x800e 1.0.0,  0x8015 1.0.0,  0x8019 1.0.0
>  0x801d 1.0.0,  0x8024 1.0.0
>
>I tried to load rf010800.hex with CVS hostap and found that prism2_srec
>refuses to load it with following error:
>
>Verifying update compatibility and combining data:
>Could not find data position for plugging PDR 0x0413 at 0x0000118e (len=2)
>Incompatible update data.
>
>This can be worked around by removing the PDR from the hex file.  It's
>this line:
>
>S311FF000000130400008E1100000200000037
>
>Maybe prism2_srec should create additional areas for addresses used in
>PDRs and write them to RAM?
>
>After this fix I could load rf010800.hex and the card shows firmware
>1.8.0.  I haven't done any further testing.
>
>  
>
Hello Pavel

Great info, do you know whats new in this firmware ?

Jiri