Netgear MA401: STA v0.8.3 => STA 1.4.9

[Pedro Estrela]

> Hi Pedro!
>
> I've tried to use your method on my Netgear MA401
> NIC: id=0x8003 v1.0.0
> PRI: id=0x15 v0.3.0
> STA: id=0x1f v0.8.3
>
> to STA 1.4.9 using your hex-File and method. It doesn't work for me, see
> the dmesg output below. When I am using STA 1.3.4 from Netgear it works,
> but I'd like to use 1.4.9 (or above) for card-based WEP in hostap-mode.

Try these:
a) flash your card in windows with the 1.4.9 firmware, AND the PDA file from
netgear that's inside the /firmware directory in the driver for the MA401

b) the same, but also include the PRI firmware from netgear

c) if still doesn't work, you'll have to make some changes to the PDA file
so that it matches what 1.4.9 needs. I've done that operations in a long,
long time, and i CAN be risky. I don't have the netgear driver right now
with me, but send me the PDA file for further inspection to try to see what
is happening.

Pedro


> Oct 17 11:30:35 igate kernel: eth2: trying to read PDA from 0x007f0000:
> failed
>   Oct 17 11:30:35 igate kernel: eth2: trying to read PDA from
> 0x003f0000: failed
> Oct 17 11:30:35 igate kernel: eth2: trying to read PDA from 0x00390000: OK
> Oct 17 11:30:35 igate kernel: eth2: fid allocate, len=2364 - timeout
> Oct 17 11:30:35 igate kernel: eth2: fid allocate, len=1600 - timeout
> Oct 17 11:30:35 igate kernel: hostap_cs: Initialization failed