Re: Formatting the Pretec FA-2002 card.

"Bruno Lopes F. Cabral" <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Oct 2003 12:46:34 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.wireless.access-point
Organization Openline Internet Ltda, http://www.openline.com.br
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello there

I didn't have to format mine (buy new, from Pretec directly)
when I first used it more than a year ago. OTOH, to REWRITE
the card, you must first erase it

it's easier to use the wrflash utility from alios distribution
to erase & write the flash on one easy step

hope this helps
Cheers
!3runo
from Brazil

Daniel Faria wrote:
> 
> Hi folks.
> 
> I bought a Pretec FA-2002 card (2MB) in order to flash
> my  AP.  The instructions in the card tell me to
> format the card before use, but I didn't manage to do
> it neither through IE nor through CardExplorer.  How
> should I format the card?  The Pretec site suggests
> using TrueFFS to format the card in Win 95/98.  Hints?
> 
> thanks a lot
> -- Daniel