
    PCnet(tm)-Mobile Firmware & Utilities Release 2.0 May 18, 1998
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Introduction
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This release notice for PCnet(tm)-Mobile Family of wireless LAN Firmware
describes the contents of the Wireless LAN Firmware.  This disk contains
revision 2.0 of the firmware object code and radio API source code.

All of the diskettes are in DOS format.

Please note the DS implementation of this firmware is not backward compatible
with previous releases of the firmware!  For specific details as to why this
is the case examine the comments in the radio API file RADIOAPI.CPP

Release Objectives
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

PCnet-Mobile Firmware Release 2.0 is an update release of the IEEE 802.11
wireless LAN firmware.  The significant changes in the firmware are
support for:

1) power savings mode functionality,
2) contention free period functionality, and
3) DSSS PLCP conformance to the 802.11 standard.

This release is intended to fulfill the following requirements:

   - Provide IEEE 802.11 compliant firmware.
   - Provide support in the form of radio API source for AMD/Harris/Celestica
     PCMCIA and ISA PnP Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) wireless LAN
     adapter cards.
   - Provide support for the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Ad-hoc and
     infrastructure environments.

Release Contents
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The elements of this release are:

    Firmware support for IEEE 802.11 devices.


DISK Layout
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Directory structure/layout for the diskettes are described below.

    - Contains a ZIP file that when expanded creates the following
	structure.

        .\FIRMWARE
        .\FIRMWARE\CORE.OBJ
        .\FIRMWARE\CORE.SRC
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\LOCATE
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.DS
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.DS\ISAPNP.BIN
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.DS\ISAPNP.OBJ
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.DS\ISAPNP.SRC
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.DS\PCMCIA.BIN
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.DS\PCMCIA.OBJ
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.DS\PCMCIA.SRC
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.FH
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.FH\ISAPNP.BIN
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.FH\ISAPNP.OBJ
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.FH\ISAPNP.SRC
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.FH\PCMCIA.BIN
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.FH\PCMCIA.OBJ
        .\FIRMWARE\BUILD.ENV\BUILD.FH\PCMCIA.SRC



Firmware Limitations
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    - None known of at this time

