DWL 520

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Wed Dec 17 11:07:47 EST 2003


On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 05:21:31PM +0100, Ruben Navarro Huedo wrote:

> > The current CVS snapshot has a new command line option, -s, that
> > disables PDA reading.
> 
> Does it means that will be passed all limitation writen in pda?

Well, it will skip all information in PDA and uses the defaults from the
firmware image. Really, this should only be used when loading primary
image into RAM for a card that does not have firmware in flash. If the
PDA information is skipped for STA firmware, all cards will end up using
the same MAC address, the default radio calibration, etc. These can
easily cause difficult to debug issues and reduced signal quality, etc.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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