no. The PDA identifies key things about your card such as channels, serial number, MAC, vendor ID, etc.
When you do a FW upgrade with the official firmware updater, it gets that info from the PDA and feeds it into the FW file then writes it.
If you yanked your FW from your gold card and I flashed it onto mine, I would have your MAC and serial number.
SO...
regardless of PDA, you can have 14 channels and 128 bit WEP even though the PDA says otherwise. This is how the Apple Airport works. If grabs your serial and MAC but ignores the rest and merely updates the firmware.
If you took the 10872.HEX file (your cards' actual station firmware) and made changes to it and wrote it back, you would get 14 channels and 128 bit wep. If you decided to use the windows updater after that, you would lose those changes and it would use your PDA to determine everything.
If someone wouldn't mind putting your old PDA on your card and flashing with the latest FW than adding 128 bit WEP and 14 channels and flashing with the same FW, we will know what the changes are we need to make.
-Mc
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Originally Posted by lincomatic
Yes, but you're assuming that the f/w is different between gold and silver cards. Since the silvers can act like golds w/ just a simple PDA change, and since the WSU tool can update both gold & silver, I'm assuming that the f/w will be identical between them, and that a PDA hack is the only way to do it.
Can someone pls dump the PDA of a silver card that's been unlocked via the Airport method? I used to have one but I accidentally upgraded it w/ the WSU too, and thus, it's back to silver functionality, so I can't check if the Airport changed the PDA.
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