[MLB-WIRELESS] FLASH ENTRASYS CARDS at Friday meet??

[Chris Drake]

The reason why i say don't bother flashing your card if you are using MS 
operating system is that there is no point! The drivers (MS 
ONLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) loads a firmware image into the rom. Therefore your 
firmware WILL equal your client version of drivers! In the roamabout/lucent 
client, in help about or something where it shows the version of firmware 
your will notice that there is a primary and secondary firmware. The primary 
is infact a read-only memory area. For the slow minded ROM is read only 
memory, it can't store data. So if you remove the card you will loose the 
contents in the ROM. As I was explaining, this is what  happens with MS 
drivers, detect card --> load driver --> put firmware image from driver into 
rom --> send an a-ok ect. card loaded.

With open source operating systems. They DON'T have the great driver to load 
the fireware into ROM capability. They instead have to load the firmware 
image which is stored in the secondary flashrom to the rom (primary firmware 
area). The WorkStation Update Tool upgrades/degrades the firmware image in 
the secondary flashrom. That is why it is only usefull for those people 
running open source operating system to use the WorkStation Update Tool.


'Enterasys can't be flashed as Lucents' this is mildly true. I have done it. 
For some reason the card has issues with the lucent driver. I have no idea 
why but it just does. So you install the entereasys driver forcefully and it 
works but as I was explaining above there is no point flashing the card to 
lucent or enterasys for that matter because the image stored in secondary 
flash will be ignored!

have to go I hope this was clearer.



On Thursday 13 June 2002 06:37 pm, you wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Drake" <cadrake at optushome.com.au>
> To: "Brendan Hiley" <Pro at ProFX.net>
> Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] FLASH ENTRASYS CARDS at Friday meet??
>
> > I would have to agree. DON'T bother flashing your cards.
>
> Why?
>
> >Unless you are going
> > to use an open source operating system (linux, freebsd ect.) because it
>
> will
>
> > have an impact on the card.
>
> What impact?
>
> >You really should read the crap about flashing
> > cards on both the lucent and enterasys cards. to sum it up. The software
> > drivers (win9x ect. != open source drivers) load a temp firmware into the
>
> rom
>
> > of the card.
>
> ROM != temp
>
> >So if you have version 8.10 client you should have a 8.10
> > 'firmware'.
>
> You cannot use Orinoco clients with Enterasys cards, no matter what
> firmware they have.
> Why can't people understand this.
>
> >But in an open source operating system there is no firmware being
> > sent into the card therefore the firmware which is in the flash rom of
> > the card will load and be put into the rom of the card.
>
> Software patches, nothing else.
>
> -ProFX
>
>
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