Re: prism2 STA firmware - 1.5.6 yes, 1.7.1 no

Paul wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 07:49, Scott Serr wrote:
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>>I just want to save anyone else out there the trouble.  1.7.1 STA 
>>firmware somehow stopped my 2450s from working.  I went down to 1.5.6 on 
>>the prism2 cards and all is fine again.
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>that's good to know, as I was thinking of upgrading the firmware in mine
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>>(I started with 1.4.?, but wanted to communicate with commercial WDS 
>>stuff in the future.)
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>where did you get the 1.5.6 firmware from?
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http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ has some pretty good 
instructions and also firmware images.  He has links to other firmware 
collections, but I think his is best.  The one I used: 
http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/firmware/1.5.6/s1010506.hex

>I am running Keith's openap image from, er, September 2001 or something
>like that. Can I put the firmware in the flash disk to be loaded at boot
>disk, or is it best to reflash the card itself (I have laptop
>triple-booting w2k, w98 or linux, so should be able to accomplish it
>with something :-)
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I would have tried flashing without cracking the case, but I didn't have 
"prism2_srec" on the LinuxAP.  I probably could have compiled it and 
thrown it on there but I was worried that things would not go well, so I 
opened each box and took the card out and stuffed it in my notebook 
which was booted in to Win98.  For WinUpdate.exe (from Intersil) to 
work, you need to have drivers installed -- so I installed the driver 
from   http://www.usr.com/support/product-template.asp?prod=2410 the 
file was http://www.usr.com/support/2410/2410-files/Driver_USR03_1.33.exe
which is not as ease to find as you might think.

This should save you alot of time.

-Scott