Re: Problem going back to original boot loader

noodle wrote:
> I too am having this problem - though i havent modified my bootloader 
> yet - im simply trying to upgrade the firmware for my wifi adaptor 
> before i begin so ill have WPA ability
> 
> I have an ipaq h5555 - following the official updates gets me nowhere - 
> as soon as i run the update tool to update the firmware of the ipaq 
> (needed before the wifi firmware update) it reboots the ipaq into a 
> state with a progress bar but the usb is then disconnnected and windows 
> complains about the usb device malfunctioning - pages ive found have 
> warned against trying to update the firmware in linux as the emulation 
> isnt good enough to communicate to the device on that level
> 
> does anyone on list have experience with this? Ive tried contacting HP 
> but i simply get the "please check your connection to the computer - 
> it's probably not plugged in"

Sounds familiar, though it is a Win issue (no pun). I had this problem 
while doing a h3900/PPC upgrade a long time ago. Sorry I don't remember 
the details. But I *think* I finally got around it by using a docking 
station with a serial connection instead of a USB one. Doesn't help if 
you don't have a serial cable, but if you have one you could try that...

A bit slower than USB but you do it only once so it does not matter.

Morten

> id really hate to move past this and end up with wifi that cannot 
> utilise WPA...
> 
> Jesse
> 
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 22:53 -0500, JM wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I installed Familiar-GPE 0.8.4 this weekend on an iPaq H5400. Everything
>>  went well, I installed the bootloader and the rootfs. Familiar boot
>> fine and every thing was working nicely except for the internal wifi
>> interface that was not detected.
>>
>> I found this wiki page
>> (http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.cgi/UpdateWifiH5450) that is saying
>> that I should upgrade the wifi firmware but that I need to go back to winCE.
>>
>> I reinstalled winCE using my backup, then I tried the firmware update
>> with error. So now I think I need the original bootloader to be able to
>> install firmware update but when I tried to use my backup in
>> BootBlaster3900-2.6.exe, I got this error:
>> \My Documents\saved_bootldr.gz is not a valid bootloader image
>> [ea003fe,43454345,ea000026]
>>
>> I have no idea what is my problem. After googleling for a while I found
>> this post that describes the exact same problem that I have but there is
>> no solution:
>> http://osdir.com/ml/handhelds.linux.h5400/2003-10/msg00046.html
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