Re: Can't find AP (BT voyager 1010USB, Fedora Core 3 k: 2.6.10)

Hi Nick,

| Balint, have you tried unplugging your NIC from USB?


It isn't Balint with the problem - it's me. Anyway, after (trying to) 
using the driver in linux and rebooting in to windows - the NIC won't 
find the AP even if I replug it - for some reason it needs to 
reinstalled from CD - strange! Actually - I wouldn't really care about 
this if it worked in Linux as I hardly ever use windows anyway - I just 
thought it might give some insight in to the problem, perhaps not.

Haydn.


Nick Steeves wrote:

>On January 5, 2005 9:30, Haydn Haines wrote:
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>>>...weird firmware?
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>>I'm beginning to think this might be a problem although I would have no
>>idea how to check it or fix it. I've just realised that when I boot in to
>>Win XP after using the linux driver (trying to at least) the nic stops
>>working. I have to uninstall & reinstall the windows driver before I can
>>find any AP's again. Perhaps this process is overwriting the bad firmware
>>with working firmware again?? Is that possible?
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>AFAIK, the firmware is uploaded to the NIC when the driver is loaded.  The 
>firmware remains in memory as long as the USB device has maintenance voltage.  
>The easiest way to "uninstall" the firmware is to completely unplug the NIC.  
>There is no need to uninstall & reinstall the windows driver.  Interestingly 
>enough, I have had the windows firmware block the linux firmware (as shipped 
>with at76c503-berlios) from loading.  Balint, have you tried unplugging your 
>NIC from USB?
>
>Cheers,
>Nick
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