From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Mar 2 11:23:40 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F4137B40B for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from gibson.acpub.duke.edu (gibson.acpub.duke.edu [152.3.233.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB5F43F75 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 11:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cscotts@mindspring.com) Received: from atevi.dyndns.org (res-152-16-222-204.dorm.duke.edu [152.16.222.204]) by gibson.acpub.duke.edu (8.11.5/8.11.3/Duke-5.0.0) with ESMTP id h22JMS218761; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:22:28 -0500 (EST) Received: from stark (res-152-16-238-96.dorm.duke.edu [152.16.238.96]) by atevi.dyndns.org (8.12.7/8.12.7) with SMTP id h22JMLaK011415; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:22:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cscotts@mindspring.com) Message-ID: <003401c2e0f1$0d0903f0$60ee1098@stark> From: "Scott Sipe" To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: References: <3E5F9C5A.3000503@isi.edu><20030228.104434.70648014.imp@bsdimp.com><20030301010414.A2061@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20030228.233918.102935668.imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: wi polling (Firmware update?) Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:22:22 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.8 required=5.0 tests=QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter, Duke University (http://amavis.org/) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Sorry if this has been mentioned before. I have a Netgear MA311 PCI card, Prism 2.5 wi0: mem 0xef000000-0xef000fff at device 16.0 on pci0 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:09:5b:12:05:17 wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.0.7), Station (1.3.6) wi0: supported rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/16 bytes threshold Should I try to update the station firmware? I'm not sure how to do this. thanks, Scott From: "M. Warner Losh" > In message: <20030301010414.A2061@freebie.xs4all.nl> > Wilko Bulte writes: > : /me wonders if there is a list somewhere of which firmware versions > : to avoid? > : > : Sofar I'm pretty happy with 01.03.04 on WL200, which since the recent > : MFC runs fine. > > 1.3.4 is known good on Prism 2 and, I think, 2.5 cards. 1.4.9 is > needed for Prism 3 cards, and works well on the 2.5 cards (although > i've seen one report of it working not so well on 2 cards). All other > revisions are poo, as far as I can tell, to varying degrees. > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message