Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 13:49:55 +0100 From: Ruben van Staveren <ruben@verweg.com> To: Chris BeHanna <chris@pennasoft.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WEP/DHCP Problems Message-ID: <20030224124955.GA21027@erg.verweg.com> In-Reply-To: <200302220032.30841.chris@pennasoft.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10302211519580.8045-100000@leahi> <200302220032.30841.chris@pennasoft.com>
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> > > > > > For the archives: flashing the WPC11's firmware up to revision > > > 1.4.9 (reported in dmesg as 1.04.09) fixed the problem. > > > > Were you able to flash the cards using FreeBSD, or did that require one of > > those foreign operating systems? > > I booted a "foreign" operating system to do it, as the flash > utilities from the vendors were all expecting to be run that way. I > didn't want to make paperweights. And you need "hacked" firmware to do so: http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostap/2002-08/1403.html http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=nl&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=aiiljp%2423qu%241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw But beware, it still craps out when doing bulk transfers over wi0 using wep! (wi_timeout and other disturbing messages appear in the kernel log) Regards, Ruben -- ,-_ .----------------------------------------------------------------. /() ) | Ruben van Staveren http://ruben.is.verweg.com/ |_o (__ ( |Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. Computers are from hell| #> =/ () `----------------------------------------------------------------' 4 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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