Ability to download our own firmware?

Wed Oct 6 13:14:49 EDT 2004

Hi,

I'm using D-Link DWL 650 Rev.P1. The wifi interface can be brought up frist 
by downloading firmware onto the card. I would like to know whether I can 
download my own firmware onto the card, so that I am able to change a few 
parameters for test purposes. Or whether the card's frimware would overwrite 
whatever I download.

Thanks,
Tanuja

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>Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:16:10 -0700 (PDT)
>From: J I <jmi_1996 at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: wep bad
>To: Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>
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>Message: 2
>Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:01:23 +0200
>From: Maxim Burgerhout <maxim at wzzrd.com>
>Subject: Verify WPA success?
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>Hi,
>
>I'm sorry I have to ask you guys a pretty n00bish question, but I don't
>know where else to turn. This WLAN stuff on Linux is all pretty new to
>me and I haven't found any serious sites concerning it yet. Apart from
>yours that is.
>
>I recently shoved a WLAN card into my laptop and got it to work with
>ndiswrapper, which is great. Then I decided to get WEP to work and that
>proved easy too. Enabling WPA was a little (but only a little trickier,
>but only a litte: it too was set up in minutes.
>
>Problem is, I can't seem to figure out whether my connection is now
>encrypted or not. And I'ld really like to be sure... When I do 'wpa_cli
>status' I get this:
>
>bssid=so:me:nu:mb:er:he:re
>ssid=HomeNet
>pairwise_cipher=TKIP
>group_cipher=TKIP
>key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>wpa_state=COMPLETED
>Supplicant PAE state=AUTHENTICATED
>heldPeriod=60
>authPeriod=30
>startPeriod=30
>maxStart=3
>suppPortStatus=Authorized
>portControl=Auto
>Supplicant Backend state=IDLE
>EAP state=SUCCESS
>reqMethod=0
>selectedMethod=0
>methodState=NONE
>decision=COND_SUCC
>ClientTimeout=60
>
>Can someone tell me:
>  a. why 'Supplicant Backend state' is always IDLE, even if I download
>some hughe file
>  b. why 'decision' says COND_SUCC? Does this mean 'conditional success'?
>Conditional in what meaning? Do I need to do something else to get it to
>say 'SUCC'? Or is this ok?
>  c. why does wpa_supplicant never show up on the top of my 'top' list?
>When I download some large files, and hence some heavy encryption should
>be in progress, shouldn't this process consume at least some cpu cycles
>and pop to the top of 'top' every now and then?
>
>I followed the instructions in the README file in the tarball, and set
>up a pre-shared key. From what I make from the -dd output when I start
>wpa_supplicant, this works. Do I need to post my -dd output?
>
>When I figure out what these messages in 'wpa_cli status' mean, I'll
>post it to some forums, so other people won't bother you ;)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Max
>
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>Message: 3
>Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 11:30:28 +0200
>From: Andreas Schuldei <andreas at schuldei.org>
>Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant against a wrt54g with new broadcom drivers
>To: hostap at shmoo.com
>Message-ID: <20041006093028.GD20019 at lukas.schuldei.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
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>* Jouni Malinen (jkmaline at cc.hut.fi) [041006 05:58]:
> > >  EAPOL: External notification - portEnabled=0
> > >  EAPOL: SUPP_PAE entering state DISCONNECTED
> >
> > ..but AP deauthenticated/disassociated..
> >
> > This could be because of the AP not liking something in the Group Key
> > msg 2/2.. Which version of madwifi driver are you using? If I remember
> > correctly, madwifi did not encrypt group key messages at some point. Has
> > that been fixed in the version you are using? It's possible that the
> > newer version of Broadcom driver started verifying that the Group Key
> > messages are encrypted..
>
>thank you for that pointer, Jouni! i updated the madwifi driver
>on the notebook to the latest version and it seems to be happy
>for several minutes allready. (c:
>
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>
>Message: 4
>Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 10:37:38 -0400
>From: Brad Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>
>Subject: Re: Verify WPA success?
>To: Maxim Burgerhout <maxim at wzzrd.com>
>Cc: hostap at shmoo.com
>Message-ID: <1097073458.12227.28.camel at up>
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>On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 11:01 +0200, Maxim Burgerhout wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm sorry I have to ask you guys a pretty n00bish question, but I don't
> > know where else to turn. This WLAN stuff on Linux is all pretty new to
> > me and I haven't found any serious sites concerning it yet. Apart from
> > yours that is.
> >
> > I recently shoved a WLAN card into my laptop and got it to work with
> > ndiswrapper, which is great. Then I decided to get WEP to work and that
> > proved easy too. Enabling WPA was a little (but only a little trickier,
> > but only a litte: it too was set up in minutes.
> >
> > Problem is, I can't seem to figure out whether my connection is now
> > encrypted or not. And I'ld really like to be sure...
>i don't know anything about wpa... but if you did a tcpdump you'd be
>able to tell if everything is encrypted or not (instead of trusting that
>the tools are reporting correctly)
>
>brad
>--
>Brad Langhorst <brad at langhorst.com>
>
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