Busy bit .. howto clear by software

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Thu Jul 31 00:51:28 EDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:36:22PM +0200, Ralf Hempel wrote:

> I've got a dead wl100 compaq card. When I try to get it in genesis mode
> with the (dos) intersil flash.exe program I get a "busy bit never
> cleared" error. Whatever I try end with that busy bit not cleared error.
> Is there a way to clear that f... bit by software? Pls. help ;-)

It does not help much trying to clear a hardware busy bit with
software.. Compaq WL-100 is using hfa3841 which does not support
software only mechanism for going into Genesis mode and you would need
to modify the PC Card slot to do this. See mailing list for more
details.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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