firmware requirement

Matt Peterson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.bsd.airtools
Message-ID <[email protected]>
I recently picked up a few evaluation 200mW Prism2.5 cards from Taipei.
One has an integrated antenna, while the other has dual MMCX connectors
(like Cisco/Aironet cards).  I just noticed they have very different
firmware versions; of course the external one I'd prefer to use for
WiLDing is older.  Out of curiosity, is their a minimum station firmware
rev that supports monitor mode without spazing out?

dstrumbler seems to get cranky with this one:

wi0: 802.11 address: 00:xx:xx:01:64:a5
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.04, Station 1.00.03
wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0002; event status 0x8000
wi0: timeout in wi_cmd 0x0000; event status 0x8000
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: init failed
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc07/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc81/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc00/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc83/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc84/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc06/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc09/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc0c/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc2d/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc04/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc02/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc03/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc0e/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc2a/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc01/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc28/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc23/0; last status 8002
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc24/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc85/0; last status ffff
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc80/0; last status ffff
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: tx buffer allocation failed
wi0: wi_cmd: busy bit won't clear.
wi0: failed to allocate 1594 bytes on NIC
wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed
wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc80/0; last status ffff
wi0: detached

The more "modern" one works fine...

wi0: 802.11 address: 00:xx:xx:01:64:30
wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.06

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Matt Peterson         another.geek.without.a.life
[email protected]       http://matt.peterson.org/
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