Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 21:46:41 -0600 (CST) From: Richard Letts <richard-freebsd@illuin.org> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Flashing MA311 to later firmware Message-ID: <20040129213144.S2707@hobbiton.illuin.org>
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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
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