User`s guide

Aironet Wireless Communications, Inc. 7-12 Confidential and Proprietary

Command Register (I/O offset 0x00)

Bit #1514131211109876543210

Name

busy Additional Info No

Ack

0 Command Code

This register is used to write commands. Busy is automatically set to 1 when a value is written to this

A command written while the Busy bit is set to 1 will be neglected.

The commands are described in detail in later sections.

COMMAND SUMMARY

Command Number Command

0x0000 NOP

0x0001 Enable

0x0002 Disable

0x0003 Force a Loss of Sync

0x0004 Firmware Restart (soft reset)

0x0005 Host Sleep (must be issued as 0x0085)

0x0006 Magic Packet

0x0008 Read the Configuration from nonvolatile

storage

0x000A Allocate Transmit Buffer

0x000B Transmit

0x000C Deallocate

0x0010 NOP (same as 0x0000)

0x0021 Access RID

0x0028 Allocate Buffer

0x0030 PSP nodes (AP only)

0x003E Set PHY register

0x003F Transmitter Test

0x0085 Go to Sleep (No Ack bit is mandatory)

0x0108 Save the configuration to nonvolatile

storage

NoAck – An EvStat.Cmd will not be generated when the command is complete. (This option is not

supported by all commands).

Param0-2 Registers (I/O offsets 0x02 – 0x06)

Bit #1514131211109876543210

Name Command Parameter

These registers are used to write required parameters for various commands.

Command parameters should only be written when the Command.Busy bit is 0. Therefore, parameters

must be entered before the command is entered in the Command register.

Details of specific parameters are provided along with the command descriptions.