From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 17 09:20:46 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 114B116A4CE for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:20:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from s1.vhost.cz (s1.vhost.cz [82.208.27.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6FB643D58 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:20:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from konfer@mikulas.com) Received: (qmail 28703 invoked by uid 89); 17 Sep 2004 11:20:43 +0200 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 Sep 2004 11:20:43 +0200 Received: from QMQPqq client ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (s1.vhost.cz [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10628) with QMQPqq id 27689-10; Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:20:42 +0200 (CEST) Received: from unknown (HELO mikulas.com) (jiri@mikulas.com@195.122.204.153) by s1.vhost.cz with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 17 Sep 2004 11:20:42 +0200 Message-ID: <414AAC6A.9080400@mikulas.com> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 11:20:42 +0200 From: Jiri Mikulas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040407 X-Accept-Language: cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vince Hoffman References: <20040916234127.K74714@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040916234127.K74714@unsane.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at s1.vhost.cz cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Prism2.5 firmware X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 09:20:46 -0000 Hello if you have FBSD 5.x, read this http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2004-May/027476.html for firmware update - for windows - download this file and run the .exe file http://bsd.mikulas.com/wifi/Fw_1.7.4.tgz Jiri Vince Hoffman wrote: >Hi all, > I've been wondering why I cant seem to get more than approx >180k(bytes)/sec from my freebsd server with a netgear MA311 pci card in >hostap. After some googling After some googling the evidence seems to >point at me having rather ancient firmware. >(23:46:36 <~>) 0 # dmesg |grep wi0 >wi0: mem 0x40500000-0x40500fff irq 5 at device 4.0 on >pci2 >wi0: 802.11 address: 00:09:5b:11:fa:39 >wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) >wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.0.7), Station (1.3.6) >wi0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps > >(the relevant line from ifconfig being >media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet DS/11Mbps (DS/2Mbps ) > >Since Netgear dont seem to supply an updated firmware, has anyone any >suggestions where i could get one, and if so is there any way to update it >under FreeBSD ? or do i need to take down my server and put the card in my >windows machine to update ? > >Any suggestions welcome. > >Thanks, > > Vince >