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Date:      Tue, 2 Jul 2002 18:48:47 +0200
From:      "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>
To:        David J Duchscher <daved@nostrum.com>
Cc:        neal@nelson.name, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: D-Link DWL-520
Message-ID:  <20020702164846.GA256@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es>
In-Reply-To: <05034375-8DD3-11D6-ABB3-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com>
References:  <20020702085131.GD250@v-ger.we.lc.ehu.es> <05034375-8DD3-11D6-ABB3-0003930B3DA4@nostrum.com>

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On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 10:47:31AM -0500, David J Duchscher wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 2, 2002, at 03:51 AM, Jose M. Alcaide wrote:
> >Are you using 128-bit WEP? There are problems with the Prism-2.5 based
> >DWL-650 (see PR kern/39928) and I wonder whether the DWL-520 is also
> >affected or not.
> 
> It might be.  I consider WEP to be pretty much worthless so I use other
> means to secure the network.  I willing to test the card if there is
> interest in knowing for sure.

Please, do it ;-) I am using IPSEC anyway, but any information that could
help to fix wi(4) (or adding a workaround for a firmware bug) will be
useful. Don't forget to include the wi(4) initialization messages in your
test report. My DWL-650 is identified as:

wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.05

I can trigger the problem sending a file such as /kernel via scp or ftp.
Be advised: your system may hang, and since the DWL-520 does not use a
removable pccard, you may need to reset the system.

Thank you,
JMA
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