Re: Flashing WUSB11 v2.5 firmware

>     A previous mention of firmware that looked "old" whetted my interest so
> I looked into it a bit more. Seems like the driver should be RAM-flashing
> the firmware with more or less the latest firmware each time it's loaded. Or
> so it says  in the docs. And, as the docs state, the files are indeed in the
> /linux-wlan-ng-XXX/src/prism2/ dir. I'm not quite sure, however, if it's
> working.
>     I went to the site mentioned in the docs --
> http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ -- and downloaded the files and they
> seem to be the same ones in the linux-wlan-ng-0.2.2 files. When I do a "cat
> /proc/net/p80211/wlan0/nsd" to see what firmware I'm running, it says:
> # prism2_usb version 0.2.2 (Thu Oct 13 00:13:39 CDT 2005) '$Id:
> prism2sta.c1730 2005-06-22 14:18:09Z solomon $'
> 
> # nic h/w: id=0x8010 1.0.0
> # pri f/w: id=0x15 1.0.6
> # sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.3.4
> 
>    But the hex files are rf010804.hex and ru010803.hex for the secondary or
> "station" , which should be the 1.84 firmware. And the primary should be
> 1.1.4, since it has the af010104.hex files.
>     So I'm confused. Is linux-wlan not RAM-flashing the firmware as it
> should or do I need to do something else?
> 


Harmon

Here is my nsd file after the firmware upload:

ident: nic h/w: id=0x8010 1.0.0
ident: pri f/w: id=0x15 1.1.2
ident: sta f/w: id=0x1f 1.8.3

The firmware upload done by the wlan-ng scripts is
only the ram upload, and will only affect the 'station'
firmware - thus only the 'sta' line will be affected.

Your output shows that even the ram sta upload is not
happening - which distro are you on? Some distros (e.g.
debian) don't having the firmware uploading stuff included in their scripts.

To affect the 'pri' you will need a flash firmware update.
I believe the prism2dl command can be used (manually) to
do this, but I would recommend using the Windows utility
if you can because any bug or instability could lead to
toasting your card. The junsun.net site should give more
info on this.

Karl

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