Experiments with different firmwares when card is in Master mode.

[Bobby Curnow]

Did you ever get this resolved, or have to downgrade the secondary
firmware to 1.7.4?
Bob C

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Ajeet Nankani wrote:

> There are some differences in operation of the prism2.5 pc-card when
> different firmwares are used, at least in master(Access Point) mode.
>
> Here are my observations,
>
> PC-card in master mode.
> Pri 1.1.1
> Sec 1.8.0 or 1.8.3
> Authentication request from STA to Authentication Response from AP takes
> around 5ms to 70ms
> (Re)Association request from STA to (Re)Association response from AP
> takes around 100ms to 150ms
>
> PC-card in master mode.
> Pri 1.1.1
> Sec 1.7.4
> Authentication request from STA to Authentication Response from AP takes
> around 1ms to 2ms
> (Re)Association request from STA to (Re)Association response from AP
> takes around 1ms to 2ms
>
> So I guess 1.7.4 is the all time best to use.
>
> Does anybody have similar or different experiences?
> Does anybody know of any bug(s) with 1.7.4?
> I could not find on internet that what they have changed/improved from
> 1.7.4 to 1.8.x
> Does anybody know about firmware change log?
> Jouni, any comments on above results, questions.
>
> -ajeet.
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