Problems with firmware download to flash on Prism2

[Santiago Garcia Mantinan]

Hi!

Today as I was upgrading to version 0.1.1 of the driver I decided to try to
upgrade the card of my main AP using prism2_srec (hostap_utils 0.1.0), this
card has following firms:
	wlan0: NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
	wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
	wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.4.9

even though when I tried to upgrade it I had ram downloaded firm 1.5.6, also
I had the card's interface up, anyway, the result was a failure, this is
what my syslog showed:

prism2_download: dl_cmd=3 start_addr=0x00000000 num_areas=3
  area 0: addr=0x003ee000 len=106 ptr=0x0805d478
  area 1: addr=0x003f17fe len=51142 ptr=0x0805eb48
  area 2: addr=0x003ff000 len=3272 ptr=0x08052910
Download buffer: 4096 bytes at 0x0060:0x0000
prism2_hw_init: initialized in 30 ms
wlan0: starting flash download
wlan0wds0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0wds0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0wds0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0wds0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0wds0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0: hfa384x_cmd_wait - timeout2 - reg=0x0000
wlan0: Flash download command execution failed
wlan0wds0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping
wlan0: prism2_tx: hw not ready - skipping

The good news are that after a reboot the card had still the original 1.4.9
firmware intact, hopefully :-)

The card was plugged into a pci to pcmcia cardbus adaptor (CardBus bridge:
Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c475 (rev 128).)

Well, that's all I can think of atm, if you need any more data about this
falure just ask for it.

Regards...
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