Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:03:35 +0100 (BST) From: Vince Hoffman <jhary@unsane.co.uk> To: Jiri Mikulas <konfer@mikulas.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Prism2.5 firmware Message-ID: <20040917120227.K95373@unsane.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <414AAC6A.9080400@mikulas.com> References: <20040916234127.K74714@unsane.co.uk> <414AAC6A.9080400@mikulas.com>
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Hi, Looks good, i'll have a go when i get home. Thanks very much, Vince On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Jiri Mikulas wrote: > 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: <Intersil Prism2.5> 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 <hostap> (DS/2Mbps <hostap>) > > > >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 > > >
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