[Prism54-users] [NEWS] Prism54 firmware going down

[Simon.Green@vodafone.co.nz]

It depends a bit on the manufacturers drivers. The v1.0.x drivers for my
3CRWE154G72 card work fine in Windows. They have a 3C154G72.sys file,
and a separate prismdcb.arm file (in system32\drivers), which is the
firmware. In my case, it was 1.0.1, which I swapped for the 1.0.4 from
the prism54.org site.

Now, the 2.1 drivers (which don't work at all, even if you follow their
updating instructions to the letter) include only a 370kb .sys file -
which I can only assume has the firmware embedded in it, as there is no
firmware file distributed with the 2.1 drivers. If I get bored I might
try to pull apart the 2.1 .sys file and see whether it really does have
firmware embedded. I know that leaving the old firmware file around or
not makes no difference - it doesn't work either way. Maybe I should
write to 3Com and ask for a v2.1 driver CD. What I do know is that I
managed to destroy a WinXP box completely the first time I tried
updating to 2.1... Second time I was more careful. :)


Cheers
Simon

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: prism54-users-admin@prism54.org=20
> [mailto:prism54-users-admin@prism54.org] On Behalf Of Luis R.=20
> Rodriguez
> Sent: Thursday, 12 February 2004 1:06 p.m.
> To: prism54-users@prism54.org
> Subject: Re: [Prism54-users] [NEWS] Prism54 firmware going down
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> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:22:57PM +1300,=20
> Simon.Green@vodafone.co.nz wrote:
> > Do you have a HOWTO or anything on firmware extraction?=20
> It's probably=20
> > very easy (eg, rename this file), but without a hint, many=20
> people will=20
> > probably just pass over all these cards for Linux=20
> altogether. Which is=20
> > a pity, as the driver works great (thankyou!) and the cards seem=20
> > pretty good too. There are not many 802.11g alternatives for Linux=20
> > yet. :(
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> Yeah, we'll have to put info on how to do this, and I may=20
> extend the supported_cards page with a "default firmware=20
> version" column which specifies which firmware version the=20
> windows driver for that card uses.=20
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> "extracting" the firmware *just* consists of renaming the *.arm file=20
> from the windows driver to isl3890 and moving it to the=20
> proper hotplug firmware dir.=20
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> If anyone finds a windows driver with a *generous* license=20
> please let us know as that would work too.
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> 	Luis
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