Firmware Question

wpj · 06-08-2003

OK I have tried doing some reasearch and can;t find a good answer to the two type of firmware on a card.

Station Firmware

and

Tertiary Firmware

can some one shed some light?

mr_wlan · 06-11-2003

Hi,

Dunno about stations firmware.

Primary firmware is the stuff to handle the basic card functions like presentation to the pcmcia bus etc. The secondary firmware is the code that does the link level stuff and handles the chatting over the wireless interface. Tertiary firmware is code you can load into the user space on wlan cards to run stuff like access point functions rather than having the host computer do it - i.e. stuff like the timing which is fairly critical.

Hope that sheds some light on it?

regards,

mr_wlan

wpj · 06-11-2003

MR_WLAN thanx that does shead some light.

06-08-2003	#1 (permalink)
wpj Registered Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mississauga Posts: 80	Firmware Question OK I have tried doing some reasearch and can;t find a good answer to the two type of firmware on a card. Station Firmware and Tertiary Firmware can some one shed some light?

06-11-2003	#2 (permalink)
mr_wlan Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 40	firmware Hi, Dunno about stations firmware. Primary firmware is the stuff to handle the basic card functions like presentation to the pcmcia bus etc. The secondary firmware is the code that does the link level stuff and handles the chatting over the wireless interface. Tertiary firmware is code you can load into the user space on wlan cards to run stuff like access point functions rather than having the host computer do it - i.e. stuff like the timing which is fairly critical. Hope that sheds some light on it? regards, mr_wlan

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06-11-2003	#3 (permalink)
wpj Registered Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mississauga Posts: 80	MR_WLAN thanx that does shead some light.