[Prism54-devel] WG511: Taiwan VS China issue?

[Tim Chick]

On Friday 24 September 2004 15:39, Benoit Panizzon wrote: 
> Hi Tim 
> 
> > Now someone needs to check this does not break a working card 
> > though! Do you have a working card? 
> 
> Unfortunately not... 
> 
 
Could anyone else try it, please? 
 
> But your patch doesn't always work. After some more googleing I found 
> an .arm file for the 'softmac' chipset: 
> 
> 3886lmac_2.7.0.0.arm 
> 
> When I try to use this one, the read back test is successfull but the 
> card still does not initialize: 
 
That is good! The softmac firmware is not compatible with the Prism54 driver! 
 
You must always use a fullmac firmware with the current driver - this is another check 
the driver could do, somehow looking at the contents of the firmware file, or at least 
checking it was a minimum plausible size. 
 
Thanks, 
Tim 

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