Re: [PATCH] hostap: allow flashing firmware

2006-01-05 Thread Ingo Oeser
Jouni Malinen schrieb: [...] that scary comment is there on purpose and it is not fully obsolete. It is still possible to get HFA3841 cards into state which require hardware modifications to recover from (i.e., they are as good as dead for most users). Taken into this account, I would prefer

Re: [PATCH] hostap: allow flashing firmware

2006-01-05 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 09:18:57PM -0800, Jouni Malinen wrote: I'm not completely against this change, but that scary comment is there on purpose and it is not fully obsolete. It is still possible to get HFA3841 cards into state which require hardware modifications to recover from (i.e., they

Re: [PATCH] hostap: allow flashing firmware

2006-01-05 Thread Stefan Rompf
Am Donnerstag 05 Januar 2006 12:27 schrieb Ingo Oeser: What about doing it in two steps (first RAM then FLASH)? [...] Is this possible or too simple to be true? RAM firmware and flash firmware are different files, so if one works, it's no guarantee that the other will, too. Stefan - To

Re: [PATCH] hostap: allow flashing firmware

2006-01-04 Thread Jouni Malinen
On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 06:22:26PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote: Host AP driver has code to support writing firmware to non-volatile memory, a.k.a. flash. This code has been extensively tested when Host AP was a standalone driver. Add a configuration option to the kernel to allow enabling

[PATCH] hostap: allow flashing firmware

2005-12-30 Thread Pavel Roskin
Host AP driver has code to support writing firmware to non-volatile memory, a.k.a. flash. This code has been extensively tested when Host AP was a standalone driver. Add a configuration option to the kernel to allow enabling this functionality. Improve the description of the RAM download