1. A-U080201.ZIP Driver
2. WHATSNEW.TXT File Contents

WHATSNEW.TXT Driver File Contents (A-U080201.ZIP)

What's New on the TRAKKER Antares Terminals

With version 8.02.01, the TRAKKER Antares family of terminals:

Monitors the ISCP scanner init. process.  
Recovers by warmbooting if needed.


With version 8.02, the TRAKKER Antares family of terminals:

SUMMARY:
Updated the Avalanche Configuration Package
Added support for Avalanche setting Factory Defaults
Fixed UPC-A and EAN-8 selections
Added support for GTIN labels
Corrected Timezone Command structure to match Windows(tm)
Standardized on Agere Radio firmware 8.73
Added support for Network EAP for LEAP
Improved interrupt performance in radio drivers
Reset radio when locked up during receive
Improved authentication speed and robustness


APPTSK:
Replace an odd error message with code that logs the error
in the error logger.



24xxCFG Configuration Package:
* Delete the Scanner Options / Selection field.  This field is
  highly dependant upon hardware configuration.
* Add GTIN support.
* Change string fields to not be required (including Time Zone)
* Add 802.1x user name and password.
* Change Open-Air Roaming field to "Prevent roaming".
* Change the backlight timeout default from zero to ten.
* Change the keypad type default from 0 to a null string.
* Correct the syntax for the Port Use field ($+IXn).
* Correct the default values for several fields.
* Add a new field to reset hardware default settings.
* Stop providing reader commands where the ICCU setting matches
  the hardware default value for that setting.
* Allow a string field to be set to a null value even if
  the default value is non-null.
* Rename the "Suspend Resume" field to "Suspend Disabled".
* Add a new field that can be used to reset default values.
* Only supply reader commands for those settings that have
  been changed.


24xxCFG.AVA: 
The Intermec Settings package for Antares
Change the name of 24xxRCD to 24xxCFG in order to be
compatible with the configuration package names used by
other Intermec products.

Allow all types of NICS to be configured with a single
configuration file (e.g., OpenAir and 802.11 radios
can be configured with one package).  Previously one had
to select an interface type.  Only the selected type
could then be configured.

Remove ICMP as a UDPPLUS option.
Use an enumerated list of Time Zone settings instead
of a simple integer input field.

AVALANCHE ENABLER:
The upgrade process has been modified to disable the network
stack and Avalanche enabler.  In other words, after upgrading
using UPGRADE.BAT the network will be disabled just like it
was in 7.xx versions of firmware.  This change consists of the
addition of a new file named APP_NAME.RCD which contains the
required reader commands as well as changes to various listfiles
to cause APP_NAME.RCD to be loaded to drive C as part of the
upgrade process.

By changing how configuration files are processed, add support
for the Default Configuration reader command.  Using this
command the latest ICCU configuration packages for the Antares
can be simplified to only supply those parameters that are not
hardware default values.

Change the memory requirements of the Avalanche Enabler
in order to allow the menu system to be entered even when
a 256K RAM drive is present.


DECODES:
ISCP configured scanners such as 1022 linear imager 
UPC-A and EAN-8 functionality now mirrors standard laser.
UPC-A is transmitted as EAN-13 only when this property 
is set and both system and leading zero digit are retained.
Discard UPC-A leading zero no-longer effects ean-8.

Allows ISCP or EzSet scanners to correctly use mixed ascii mode.
Correct for a lockup that occurs when configuring ISCP
symboligies via reader command label.

Removes a space that was inadverantly added at the 126th 
character of large PDF labels (iscp scan engines) when 
packets are reassembled.


DISPLAY:
Change ReadDisplayBuf to fix a problem with certain EzBuilder
applications.  ReadDisplayBuf was using far too much stack space
and was also much slower than need be as a result.
It was the excessive stack space requirements though that caused
application corruption.

ICCU:
Correct AP Density settings.
Remove subnet mask and default router IP settings.  
These will be managed by network profiles.
Change the minimum RAM drive size to zero so that you can
configure it properly.
Rework the COM port settings to add in dependancies and insure
that all the configurable settings yeild proper reader commands.
Add online help file.


KEYPAD:
Change to the 243x 48key tables.
Reverses functionality tab now works with caps lock and caps
+ shift for back tab. This mirrors our other keypads.

Menu System:  
Copyright changed to reflect 2005.

Serial Comm:  
Improve the YU configuration command parser such that an invalid
parameter value will result in an error.

TERMSERV: 
Time Zone changes -- the DZ command now works with any
positive or negative offset in increments of 15 minutes,
anywhere from -14 hours to +14 hours.

   The new syntax is:
      DZ[-|+]hh[:mm]
      hh is hours
      mm is minutes and must be either 15, 30, or 45.

   Examples: 
   PST is now specified as "DZ-8".  But in order to be
   backwards compatible, "DZ8" still works.
   
   "DZ+1" is the time zone in Amsterdam, Berlin, or several
   other major cities east of Greenwich.  
   
   "DZ+5:45" is the proper value for Katmandu. 
   
   Basically any value you see listed in your Windows time
   zone list will work.



802.11 Radio Firmware (L80211UP.BIN):
This firmware release includes Agere Firmware version 8.73.

802.1x Radio Drivers (L8021X.BIN, L802LEAP.BIN):

Improve user authentication to allow reauthentication to work
smoothly even after having entered erroneous credentials in
a previous attempt.

802.11 Radio Driver:
Modify the logon procedure to make it possible for the
application (TE-2000) to reprompt for credentials if the
credentials entered do not work.

L8021x.BIN:
Changing the outer TLS name from "anonymous" to 
"anonymous@antares" makes it possible for SBR to route 
authentication requests based on the domain name of "antares".
Customers who want to use 2048 bit keys for their certificates
can now do so, and still  be able to route Antares devices to a
server where 1024 bit keys are used.

L802LEAP.BIN:
The LEAP driver now uses Network EAP.  This means that the
"open" check boxes need no longer be checked on the Cisco
AP's used with LEAP.  But it also means that "Network EAP"
must be checked.  It is expect that customers will already
have the "Network EAP" checked since that has always been
required of other LEAP clients.

All Agere radio drivers:
Improved critical section code allows interrupts to remain
enabled more often.  This should improve performance as well
as to reduce interaction with concurrent serial data.
Most notably FileCopy should work much better without having
to first disable the network.


802.11/TCPIP:
Allow fast TTLS authentication w/ Intermec AP's during roaming.
Monitor radio activity during authentication & reset radio if necessary.
Monitor radio activity during PING in TCP/IP stack & reset radio if necessary.
In the event F/W can't see the PCMCIA card, reset TCP/IP stack

TCPIP:
Reduces delay of keyed data to the display in 
terminal emulation.

Correct how RST is handled for TCP connections.
Speed up the shutdown process for TCP connections.
Update the ARP cache for the default router as routed
connections are updated.
Connect the sockets interface, specifically the
connect procedure.

UDPPLUS and TCP/IP Network Stacks:

When IP routing is required, use the MAC address of the default
router to route all application frames without ever performing
a local ARP for the remote IP.

When a frame is received for a remote IP, update the ARP
cache for both the remote IP and the router used to communicate
to that remote IP.

By correcting how a routed connection is openned the router will 
still be ARPed to establish the next hop but the host itself will 
not be ARPed.  This solves a problem with some routers that do 
not answer the second ARP.


UDPPlus Network Stack:
Correct controller DHCP specifically in the case where an IP is
already assigned for the controller.  The case where a zero IP
is recorded was already working.

Modify how UDPPlus works such that the ACK for an IFrame is
sent as the application consumes the message and not before.
This change should improve performance when many small frames
are sent to the Antares very quickly.

Update the ARP cache for the default router as routed
connections are updated.

WTP: 
Returns correct session status to the application and 
improves cold boot operation.
  
Removed radio lock-up during roaming and memory leaks.

OTHER:
On 4MB systems the last 2MB can be used for three different
purposes:
* Double-byte fonts
* A flash drive -- drive D
* TTLS security security driver

Until now those three choices were mutually exclusive.  Now,
with changes to the file system, the memory can be shared.
For example, here is a table of the drive sizes for each of
the possible choices:
 1893K when 100% is allocated to drive D.
 1513.5K when the TTLS security security driver loaded.
 1007.5K when the 24dbcsjl.fon, or 24dbcscl.fon double-byte
 	font files are loaded.
 691K when the 24dbcstl.fon font file is loaded.
 248.5K when the 24dbcskt.fon font file is loaded.
 185K when the 24dbcskl.fon font file is loaded.

No drive D is possible when either 24dbcsct.fon, 24dbcstt.fon,
or 24dbcsjt.fon are loaded, as they use too much flash.

The default for the flash usage is changing in this release
to always allocate as large a flash drive as is permitted
according to the table above.  One can still reconfigure to
elminate drive D, as well as to configure a smaller size
for drive D if so desired.  In the past the only two options
were either 0 blocks (FF0) or 32 blocks (FF32).  Now one can
specify any number of blocks between 3 and 32.  Each block
consists of 64K.  The first two blocks allocated are consumed
as overhead by the flash file system.  So a 3 block drive
results in only 58.5K of usable storage.

Note also that all of the font files can be combined with the
the new TTLS security driver to produce a system that supports TTLS
AND the corresponding double-byte font.  This is in addition to
having a drive D available in most cases.

These changes will be both backward and forward compatible
according to this matrix:

Radio Driver	Security.BIN	Font file	Compatible	   
   New             *n/a           New              Yes
   Any              Any           None             Yes
   Any              n/a           Old              No
   Old              n/a	          New              No

– New font files can be created that combine the new TTLS
  security driver with the font definitions into a single file.
  With the new blended font files TTLS is supported so long
  as you use the new driver.	   
- As long as no font file is loaded you have full compatibility
  regardless which version of driver or TTLS security driver is
  loaded.
– The old font files do not contain the TTLS security driver
  BIN and as such will not support TTLS.
- The old TTLS driver will not find the new TTLS security driver
  in the new blended font files.




With version 8.01.02, the TRAKKER Antares family of terminals:

ROM-DOS.IMG has been patched to work with this latest release of
Antares firmware.  Specifically the ROM DOS stack had to be
relocated to avoid conflict with the operating system.


Otherwise, all functions of Antares 8.01.02 are carried forward.