newest firmware for prism 2 cards (1.7.1 runs weird)

[Peter]

hi,

i don't think your problem is the firmware, i would rather guess it's an
irq problem.

try "exclude irq 3" in your /etc/pcmcia/config.opts

normally irq 3 and 4 are reserved for serial ports and shouldn't be used
for other hardware

regards,
peter


On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 16:53:29 +0000
Bill Schwanitz <bilsch at bilsch.org> wrote:

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> While we're on this topic, what is the recomended firmware for running
> with the hostap driver.
> 
> Here is what I have:
> 
> hostap_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
> hostap_cs: 0.2.0 - 2004-02-15 (Jouni Malinen <jkmaline at cc.hut.fi>)
> hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (constant)
> hostap_cs: CS_EVENT_CARD_INSERTION
> hostap_cs: setting Vcc=33 (from config)
> Checking CFTABLE_ENTRY 0x01 (default 0x01)
> IO window settings: cfg->io.nwin=1 dflt.io.nwin=1
> io->flags = 0x0046, io.base=0x0000, len=64
> hostap_cs: Registered netdevice wifi0
> hostap_cs: index 0x01: Vcc 3.3, irq 3, io 0x0100-0x013f
> prism2_hw_init: initialized in 200 ms
> wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
> wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
> wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.0
> wifi0: registered netdevice wlan0
> 
> The card is an senao/EnGenius 200mW pcmcia with external ant. I get
> really unstable speeds and odd results from iwconfig.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bill Schwanitz
> 
> jar at pcuf.fi wrote:
> |>Well, I was wondering if anybody else has experienced similar
> |problems and>if there is a newer version for old cards or we should
> |stay with 1.5.6 :-?
> |
> |
> | Yes. I have tested the 1.7.1 ram version. At least the link quality,
> | signal and noise level values reported by hostap driver and iwconfig
> | seem to be totally useless. They seem to be random numbers. It is
> | hard to e.g. draw mrtg graphs by using those numbers. At the moment
> | I use the 1.5.6 version.
> |
> | I didn't notice any differences in transfer speeds between 1.5.6 and
> 1.7.1.
> |
> | Best Regards, Jar
> |
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