Re: Maldita kernel...

Hello Keith, Hello folks

Before start putting money on 400mW cards, better read this thread
http://forums.star-os.com/showthread.php?p=31116
(we had similar results, here)

I have a bunch of USR2450s laying around here (almost 10, I think) with 
no usage, as I'm personally running WRAP2C from quite some time, now, 
and I must say I'm very happy with them.

I remember someone selling 2MB flash upgrades to WL11000 but it required 
lots of soldering, as adding more RAM would. If only it was easier so 
anyone can add it... as easy as i.e. adding a SD memory card on 
openwrt's WRT54G (six pins to solder and a driver, very easy!).

Any hardware hackers still here willing to try to port the SD hack? ;-)

Keith, how did you upgrade the firmware on linuxap pccards? that could 
earn a few bits of flash space (removing hostap wep support and doing it 
on pccard firmware). I saw once an upgrade on star-os site but never had 
the guts to try it out

http://www.star-os.com/downloads/prism25-156.zip
"This Windows utility will update your Prism 2.5 PCI / PCMCIA card to 
primary firmware v1.1.1, and secondary firmware v1.5.6"

where did you get the one you used?

Cheers
!3runo
from Brazil

Keith Smith wrote:
> I have one of these left here as a spare.  All the rest the mainboards
> died, continuously rebooting. <sigh>.  Power is also a problemm, the 9v
> 1.1a transformer that came with these things was real junk.  All but one
> of those I owned died.  The wifi cards in them however are about
> indestructable.  I have a pile of them, all 100% functional, most at
> 1.7.1 now.
[...]
> For $80 you can get an ATHEROS A/B/G mini-pci board 400mW from
> mwave.com, if you need to just blast it out.  Madwifi not quite up to
> hostap, but it's improving.  Supports hostapd now too.
> 
> Frankly, new drivers and capabilities for these chipsets require too
> much space for the silly emuticom.  I'll breathe a sigh of relief when I
> retire the last one.  Going to get rid of the other two in the next 60
> days.