WL200 (partial) success: prism2_srec with r1010506.hex

JuanJo Ciarlante jjo-hostap
Wed Nov 13 06:08:03 PST 2002


Hi ...

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:49:14PM +0200, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> Actually, there seems to be combinations in which prism2_srec is too
> strict about the compatibility verification (or the image is just not
> listing all possibilities). For example, I have seen a D-Link DWL-650
> card with NICID 0x8008 v1.0.1, but the station firmware for 0x8008 is
> only reporting support for v1.0.0. However, this image seems to be
> working fine with the v1.0.1 card.. Current version of prism2_srec
> requires that even the variant matches fully and I'm not sure whether
> this could be changed (now you would need to patch the source code to
> get the image loaded).

I'm using hostap-2002-10-12 with CVS prism2_srec on linux-2.4.20-rc1.

I've successfully loaded 1.5.6 firmware (r1010506.hex) onto
RAM by forcing it (-ri), so I modified /etc/pcmcia/wireless to call prism2_srec
just before perfoming iwconfig's.
After that wlan worked Ok like before, _but_ running hostap_diag still
showed v0.8.0 firmware, so I doubt if it actually did the work.
I've attached prism2_srec output.

Yesterday I did cold/warm reboot several times with success, today
I (rushly) booted but it didn't associate, so I undid the changes
and booted "normally" Ok, I'll test it further ASAP.

BTW ... Does it seem safe to use windoze intersil tool to toast
1.5.6 permanently on board ?


Regards ... and thanks for the GREAT work, Jouni !
-- 
--Juanjo

#  Juan Jose Ciarlante (JuanJo PGP) jjo ;at; mendoza.gov.ar              #
#  Key fingerprint = 76 60 A5 76 FD D2 53 E3  50 C7 90 20 22 8C F1 2D    #
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srec summary for r1010506.hex
Included file name: r1010506.hex
Component: 0x001f 1.5.6 (station firmware)
Supported platforms:
  0x8002 1.0.0,  0x8002 1.0.1,  0x8003 1.0.0,  0x8003 1.0.1,  0x8004 1.0.0
  0x8008 1.0.0
Separate S3 data areas:
  addr 0x001F1800..0x001FDFED (len 51182)
  addr 0x001FF000..0x001FFCC7 (len 3272)
Total data length: 54454 bytes
Start address 0x000f8c01

Wireless LAN card information:
Components:
  NICID: 0x8002 v1.0.1
  PRIID: 0x0015 v0.3.0
  STAID: 0x001f v0.8.0

Verifying update compatibility and combining data:
Incompatible interfaces:
  SREC: role=Actor    variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Modem-Firmware
  card: role=Supplier variant=0 range=1-1 iface=Modem-Firmware
Ignoring incompatibility
PDR 0x0204 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=80: 00 00 00 50 06 00 00 70 0b 00 00 00 c3 05 00 20 00 00 00 50 0b 00 00 00 e5 07 00 a0 e6 07 00 e0 00 08 00 20 01 08 00 60 02 08 00 a0 03 08 00 e0 05 08 00 20 06 08 00 60 07 08 00 a0 20 08 00 e0 22 08 00 20 23 08 00 60 24 08 00 a0 27 08 00 a0
PDR 0x0405 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=4: 00 00 00 30
PDR 0x0300 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=28: fa 00 fb 00 fb 00 fa 00 fb 00 fa 00 f9 00 fa 00 f9 00 f8 00 f6 00 f3 00 f2 00 eb 00
PDR 0x0301 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=34: 00 00 00 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 fa 00 00 00 e2 00 ca 00 9a 00
PDR 0x0006 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=10: 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 01 00
PDR 0x0406 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=2: 64 00
PDR 0x0303 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=2: ff 1f
OK.

Downloading to volatile memory (RAM).
OK.



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