Firmware STA 1.5.4, R1010504.HEX

[Stuffed Crust]

On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 06:40:29PM -0400, Jason Boxman wrote:
> I'd be happy with the knowledge of a Windows utility that will flash a card to 
> some more recent firmware version.  It seems different vendors decide whether 
> or not to make available updated firmware versions for their products and 
> that's the best you can hope for...

Generally, the vendors are too lazy to bother with updates unless it
fixes specific problems their larger customers are complaining about.

> It sounds like upgrading to the most recent firmware is a mixed bag.  It 
> sounds like there are different variants for different chipsets, some older 
> ones don't have compatible newer firmware revisions, and some vendors don't 
> care to make updates available even when the chipset revision has a matching 
> firmware revision.

Intersil has current updates for every production chipset.  Going all
the way back to the earliest prism2 days.   For example, 1.5.6 is
available for prism2, but the newest you'll find on most vendor's sites
is 0.8.3, if they bother at all.

Of course, it's not that the vendors are necessarily lazy -- they have
to properly validate the firmware release on their hardware and driver
combination, and that takes time and costs money.   It may also require
PDA updates, but fortunately Intersil has been good lately about
providing sane defaults for missing records.

Generally, newer is better, but this isn't always the case..
 
 - Pizza
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Solomon Peachy                                   pizza at f*cktheusers.org
I'm not broke, but I'm badly bent.                         ICQ #1318344
Patience comes to those who wait.                         Melbourne, FL
               Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
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