Primary Firmware Download

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Fri Apr 11 09:20:40 EDT 2003


On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 08:46:55AM -0400, Foy, Patrick wrote:

> Does the hostap driver with the prism2_srec utility support primary firmware
> download to RAM? I tried it, but it didn't seem to work.  I need to figure
> out if I am doing something wrong or the download feature needs more
> debugging.   I saw some discussions last October expressing concern that the
> primary download wasn't fully functional, but nothing since then.  I need to
> make this work, so before I troubleshoot and research more information, I
> wanted to get some feedback.

It does not work yet. Downloading and starting primary firmware seems to
require something different than station firmware downloading and
anything I have tried just "kills" the card (it asserts CmdBusy and COR
sreset is needed to recover from this). I don't know whether
documentation for doing PRI download to RAM is available somewherer. If
it is, I would be willing to implement this feature. Just guessing what
is needed for it seems to take too much time.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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