
    PCnet(tm)-Mobile Firmware & Utilities Release 1.5 Oct 31, 1997
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Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~

This release notice for PCnet(tm)-Mobile Family of wireless LAN
Firmware and Utilities Revision 1.5 describes the contents of the
Wireless LAN Firmware and Utilities disks.

All of the diskettes are in DOS format.

These disks contain revision 1.5 of the firmware object code and
utilities (object code and source code) and radio API source code.
This RELEASE.TXT file covers the contents in these three diskettes.


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

PCnet-Mobile Firmware Release 1.5 is an update release of the IEEE
802.11 wireless LAN firmware.  This release is intended to fulfill
the following marketing requirements:

   - Provide IEEE 802.11 firmware
   - Provide support for AMD/Harris/Celestica PCMCIA Direct Sequence
        (DS) wireless LAN adapter cards.
   - Provide support for ISA Direct Sequence (DS) wireless LAN
        adapter cards.
   - Provide support for the IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN Ad-hoc and
        infrastructure environments.
   - Provide the necessary utilities for test/debug and to assist in
        the manufacturing process.


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

The elements of this release are:

    Firmware support for IEEE 802.11 devices.

The Rev 1.5 of the Utilities are distributed as follows:

    Disk 1/3 - Firmware object and API source files
    Disk 2/3 - OEM Support Utilities
    Disk 3/3 - PCnet Overlay Utility



DISK Layouts
~~~~~~~~~~~~

Directory structure/layout for the diskettes are described below.

1. Disk 1/3

    - 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


2. Disk 2/3

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

		C:\AMD
		C:\AMD\UTILS
		C:\AMD\DOCS
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\CARD_OFF
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\CARD_ON
        C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\DOMAIN
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\FLASH
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\ISAPNP
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\ISA_ON
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\LOADCARD
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\MIB
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\MODCIS
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\MODISA
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\MODNID
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\PCMCIA
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\READCARD
        C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\RCR_INC
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\SOCKET
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\TARGETS
		C:\AMD\UTIL_SRC\TIMER

Limitations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

All AMD provided utilities for PCMCIA card support require that
the PCMCIA Card & Socket Services be disabled.

ISA_ON reguires that no other PnP cards be present in the system.


3. Disk 3/3

    - This support utility requires the use of Win95 or Win-NT
          operating system.


Firmware Limitations
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    - The firmware does not support power management at this point
      in time.

