Re: Converting AP cards to normal use
Haudy Kazemi <[email protected]>
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At 01:31 AM 7/19/2005 -0700, you wrote: >When they first came out, we bought a couple of EnGenius access points. >They worked fine for about a year, then both crapped out with the same >problem: the Ethernet board went into jabber mode. > >So ... we salvaged the EnGenius EL-2011CD cards out of the APs, and tossed >the rest. The cards have dual external antenna jacks, and I think they are >higher-than-normal-for-the-day power, too. > >I just tried one of the cards. Win XP see it just fine, and my Prism >configurator program does, too. However, the card has only Access Point and >Peer-to-Peer modes. No Infrastructure. So I can't really use it as a >"normal" card the way it is. > >Is there a way to re-do the firmware in the card to make it nore nearly >normal? I've searched for, and found, a lot of stuff on updating the >firmware, but I can't tell if this is the things to do, and all of the web >pages dedicated to this arcana presuppose a lot of knowledge I don't have. > >If anyone has done this and can show me the way, I'd be most appreciative. > >Thanks. > >-Shel The Engenius cards you have are probably the same as some Senao cards using the Prism chipset (probably Prism 2 or 2.5). You'll need to do the firmware flashing from a Windows or Linux box, and you'll need to find appropriate firmware versions to load into them. These cards have 2 components to the firmware, a primary (PRI) firmware and secondary (station)(STA) firmware, which need to matched to each other and to your card's hardware. (A matched pair of primary and secondary firmware will not necessarily have the same version number.) Read up on these pages for more (esp the first link): http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/ http://www.red-bean.com/proski/firmware/ http://tools.collegeterrace.net/prismfw/ Pay special attention to which 'NICID' (read first link) you have and which files you use for firmware flashing. -Haudy Kazemi _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://seattlewireless.net/mailman/listinfo/dev