fixed - was Re: Linksys WMP 11 (Prism2.5) + hostap = no good?

[Nick Sayer]

I decided to throw caution to the wind.

I downloaded the 1.4.9 firmware file from netgate and the WMP11 firmware
upgrade zip from Linksys. Unfortunately, the upgrader has the firmware
filename hard-coded. So I wrote a quick program in C to change all
occurances of the filename from 10402 to 10409. Then I put the resulting
stuff on a floppy and trudged the card over to my wife's Windows
machine(*). I set up the driver for the card, ran the upgrader, moved
the card back to the server and now not only does hostAP mode work
properly, but I get the improved signal strength I was hoping for (I am
using RELENG_4 now).

Yay!

Thanks all around!

* I am increasingly irritated by the fact that as time goes on, I become
personally less and less dependent on Microsoft (my Wife runs OpenOffice
now and as soon as I get her to switch to mozilla she'll be able, in
theory, to switch OSes and not miss any software), but wind up still
having to keep a Windows machine in a case marked "In case of emergency
break glass" for doing stupid things like firmware upgrades for
peripherals. Grr!

Nick Sayer wrote:
> Thanks all for the quick replies.
>
> I tried both RELENG_4 and RELENG_4_6 without results.
>
> I can try the firmware upgrade, but
>
> 1. Can I do it without Windows?
>
> 2. Since that .zip doesn't come from Linksys (and Linksys doesn't have
> anything newer than what I've got), am I going to run into any
> compatibility issues?
>
>
> Matt Peterson said:
>
>>Upgrade STA f/w to 1.04.09
>><http://www.netgate.com/support/prism_firmware/1.4.9.zip>. This appears
>>to make HostAP more reliable. Also, do sup to -STABLE from last night
>>(imp just commited some bits that fix up BRIDGE and Cisco STA support).
>>I've up to 54 STAs assoicate to my -STABLE AP so far.
>>
>>On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 07:10:01PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>>
>>>In message: <3D4C6964...@quack.kfu.com>
>>> Nick Sayer <nsa...@quack.kfu.com> writes:
>>>: I went and got one of these cards because of the antenna jack. I
>>>thought : it would improve the signal strength. Instead, none of my
>>>hosts will : associate with it at all.
>>>:
>>>: wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xe5800000-0xe5800fff irq 12 at device
>>>10.0 : on pci0
>>>: wi0: 802.11 address: 00:06:25:09:8b:ea
>>>: wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
>>>: wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.01.00, Station 1.04.02
>>>:
>>>: Am I SOL?
>>>
>>>Revision of freebsd? This card should just work. However, there were
>>>some "issues" with hostap and bridging that I just fixed in -current
>>>and MFC'd only a few days ago.
>>>
>>>Warner
>>>
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>>
>>--
>>Matt Peterson another.geek.without.a.life
>>ma...@peterson.org http://matt.peterson.org/
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[Matt Peterson]

I hear rumors imp is working on a f/w updater.. similar to the Symbol
f/w uploader. The Linux HostAP guys have one.

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 12:35:29AM -0700, Nick Sayer wrote:
>
> Thanks all around!

It helps that I've just updated 60 cards that I sold @ defcon today.