m: Stephen Gildea <gildea@stop.mail-abuse.org>
To: jsun@junsun.net
Subject: hostap flash Intersil/Prism 8002 firmware
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 06:38:19 -0500

On http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/IDtable.html you ask,

    Note 2: 8002 is not originally listed in this table. Thanks to <...>
     who confirmed that 8002 uses the same firmware as 8003. Note you
     may encounter warnings when you flash with prism2_srec. Supply "-i"
     argument to overrice the warning.
     [CAN SOMEONE CONFIRM IF "-i" IS NEEDED?] .

I can confirm that you do NOT need "-i" with an 0x8002 card.

I successfully upgraded my SMC card's station firmware from v0.7.6 to
v1.7.1 using prism2_srec version 0.4.7.

Output of prism2_srec:

# prism2_srec -v wlan0 s1010701.hex 
S3 CRC-16 generation record: start=0x003F1800 len=52084 prog=1
Start address 0x00000000
srec summary for s1010701.hex
Component: 0x001f 1.7.1 (station firmware)
Supported platforms:
  0x8002 1.0.0,  0x8002 1.0.1,  0x8003 1.0.0,  0x8003 1.0.1,  0x8004 1.0.0
  0x8008 1.0.0
Interface compatibility information:
  role=Supplier variant=1 range=1-12 iface=Station Firmware-Driver (4)
  role=Actor    variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Modem-Firmware (1)
  role=Actor    variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Controller-Firmware (2)
  role=Actor    variant=1 range=1-2 iface=Primary Firmware-Driver (3)
Separate S3 data areas:
S3 area count: 3
  addr=0x003EE000..0x003EE069 (len=106)
  addr=0x003F1800..0x003FE373 (len=52084)
  addr=0x003FF000..0x003FFBE5 (len=3046)
Total data length: 55236
Start address 0x00000000

Wireless LAN card information:
Components:
  NICID: 0x8002 v1.0.0
  PRIID: 0x0015 v0.3.0
  STAID: 0x001f v0.7.6
Interface compatibility information:
  PRI role=Supplier variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Modem-Firmware (1)
  PRI role=Supplier variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Controller-Firmware (2)
  PRI role=Supplier variant=1 range=1-2 iface=Primary Firmware-Driver (3)
  STA role=Supplier variant=1 range=1-4 iface=Station Firmware-Driver (4)
  PRI role=Actor    variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Controller-Firmware (2)
  STA role=Actor    variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Controller-Firmware (2)
  STA role=Actor    variant=1 range=1-1 iface=Modem-Firmware (1)

Verifying update compatibility and combining data:
Plugging PDR 0xffffffff at 0x003fceb6 (len=14)
Plugging PDR 0x0202 at 0x003fdeee (len=100)
Plugging PDR 0x0203 at 0x003fdf52 (len=128)
Plugging PDR 0x0204 at 0x003fdfd2 (len=80)
Plugging PDR 0x0405 at 0x003fe022 (len=4)
PDR 0x0405 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=4: 00 00 00 30
Plugging PDR 0x0300 at 0x003fe026 (len=28)
Plugging PDR 0x0301 at 0x003fe042 (len=34)
Plugging PDR 0x0101 at 0x003fe228 (len=6)
Plugging PDR 0x0103 at 0x003fce78 (len=12)
Plugging PDR 0x0104 at 0x003fcfb0 (len=2)
Plugging PDR 0x0105 at 0x003fe234 (len=2)
Plugging PDR 0x0105 at 0x003fcfe6 (len=2)
Plugging PDR 0x0105 at 0x003fe330 (len=2)
Plugging PDR 0x0107 at 0x003fce86 (len=2)
Plugging PDR 0x0006 at 0x003fce52 (len=10)
Plugging PDR 0x0406 at 0x003fe2c8 (len=2)
PDR 0x0406 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=2: 64 00
Plugging PDR 0x0302 at 0x003fe06a (len=2)
PDR 0x0302 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=2: 12 00
Plugging PDR 0x0303 at 0x003fe06c (len=2)
PDR 0x0303 not found from wlan card PDA. Using default data.
  len=2: ff 1f
Generating CRC-16 (start=0x003f1800, len=52084) at 0x003f17fe
OK.