From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 29 19:47:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8682416A4CE for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from illuin.org (firewall.illuin.org [66.141.59.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 493B643D2D for ; Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:47:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from richard@illuin.org) Received: (qmail 3122 invoked by uid 1000); 30 Jan 2004 03:46:41 -0000 Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:46:41 -0600 (CST) From: Richard Letts X-X-Sender: richard@hobbiton.illuin.org To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040129213144.S2707@hobbiton.illuin.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Flashing MA311 to later firmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 03:47:26 -0000 Hi, I've been having problems with my machine locking up when my wife's windows'98 laptop is using the MA311 hostAP: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 14b/3c; last status 403c wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 14b/3c; last status 403c wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 14b/3c; last status 403c Huh-Oh you're thinking that the firmware needs updating, well I've come to that conclusion myself as it's running 1.0.7/1.3.6 wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.06 Now, the tricky part: I don't have windows anywhere I can plug this card into. I've tried using flash.exe 0.5e from FreeDOS: A:\FW> flash.exe -vb -d pk010101.hex But it complains about a blank/invalid PDA area on the card, and asks if I want to continue. (from the site in the .cz mentioned on several pages google returned on this topic) I don't have a copy of what the PDA area should be, so I'm hesitant to over-ride this warning in case it kills the (mostly) working card. If I try and do A:\FW> flash -vb -s flash.exe reports an error 'Bad Status 2674 auxEnable failed.' [I get the same error trying to copy the pda off the card] I've read the archive, but the only thing I can find is a post from dougb telling someone to search the archive for a post he made [then] recently, but the search string in that post doesn't return anything useful. (and neither does the archive on geocrawler.com] Anyone got any suggestions, magic incantations for flash.exe that would allow me to upgrade the firmware. If I were running linux I guess I could use flash_srec, I couldn't find the equivalent for FreeBSD. Thanks in advance... and please reply to the list so someone else can make use of the result. /RjL