Compaq WL200 wireless card trouble

I hope someone can shed some light on the following:

I have an Abit BP6 running -stable, equipped with a Compaq WL200
wireless card. This is a PCI card with a PCMCIA-PCI bridge and a PRISM2
chipset. As in:

pcic0: <Cirrus Logic PD6729/6730 PCI-PCMCIA Bridge> port 0xcc00-0xcc03 irq
11 at device 15.0 on pci0
pcic0: Polling mode
pccard0: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0
pccard1: <PC Card 16-bit bus (classic)> on pcic0
...
wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 11 slot 0 on pccard0
wi0: 802.11 address: 00:50:8b:d0:6a:ba
wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163-SST-flash
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 0.03.00, Station 1.03.04

The problem I see is:
wi0: watchdog timeout
wi0: watchdog timeout
wi0: watchdog timeout
wi0: watchdog timeout

I've also seen:

Feb 21 02:31:52 smp /kernel: wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 144/3c; last status
403c

Tried moving the card around into other PCI slots but that did not help. 

One can get it to associate:

wi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.5.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 255.255.255.0
        ether 00:50:8b:d0:6a:ba
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
        status: associated
        ssid wbw 1:""
        stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
        channel 3 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
        wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

The card (urkk....) works ok with Win98 so the hardware is basically OK
I would think.

Questions:
- any idea why these watchdog timeouts occur?
- is the firmware the WL200 currently runs a sensible one for PRISM2?
  (it has 0.8.0 which is not OK for host ap mode which is the ultimate
   goal here)

tnx
Wilko

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