Re: Maldita kernel...

Bruno L. F. Cabral wrote:

> 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'm using the ENGENIUS EMP-8602 PLUS, not the UBIQUITI SR-5.

I think people don't read well.  Maximum 'G' Power is much lower, 'A'
even lower yet in the 5.3 bands.  The WRAP boards need both a firmware
update, and a later rev/power update in order to behave well with theses
high-power cards.  The nice thing about the card is the overall
capability, and some headroom.

I've currently got a pair of CM6's (Identically spec'd to the CM9) in a
1.E running my base AP here, and they do work quite well, but the 5.8
band is limited to like 14dB.  I have some A-only boards I got stuck
with by mistake, that are 100mw pure on the 5.8.  I want to move all my
customers to 5.8, but was trying to transition.  I think now, I'm going
to simply put up a couple of 5.8 antenna's and run side-by-side.

> 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.

Yep, it's like a night and day difference.

> 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!).

Still, it's crazy unless you are doing it for fun.  Plus, hacking up a
cross-compiler for ARM and all that junk is just a real PITA.  With
WRAP/Soekris, you just do a normal compile, and you can put normal
utilites on the thing.  That was the allure of the WL platform, it was
just too limited.  Why deal with an 8Mhz ISA bus, and those pathetic
serial ports.

> 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

Pull the card.  Shave the key on the left side off.  Put it in the
laptop, . . .

> where did you get the one you used?

prism2_srec works just fine.  You have to compile with support, modify
one of the drivers/... .h  files, hostap_config.h or something like that.
I also have the WinUpdate.exe utility.  Anybody ever figure out what the
heck kind of connector that is on the WL11000 card?  It's very close to
an RP-MMCX, but it's not.

--Keith