I haven't been able to get firmware version 1.8.4 to work right. Lots
of timeouts and other errors were present. I have had success with
1.7.4 on a Senao card with my net4511. I also know that 1.5.6 is
supposed to work well although I had some issues with 1.5.6 and
hostap while 1.7.4 works great with hostap.
I have found that with Prism 2.5 wireless cards, newer firmware
usually is not better. Most of the cards I have purchased came from
Netgate and they have all been shipped with firmware 1.4.9. I have
also found that different operating systems work right with different
versions of the firmware, at least when it comes to hostap
functionality. I have found that m0n0wall (based on FreeBSD) works
great with 1.5.6 but not with 1.7.4 while OpenBSD works great with
1.7.4 but not 1.5.6.
Anyway, try 1.7.4. That is my suggestion.
Bryan
On Sep 21, 2006, at 9:41 AM, William Graeber wrote:
I have been having issues with a Senao Prism2.5 wireless card
(1.8.4firmware) on a soekris net4511. If I add the wicontrol command
in
/etc/hostname.wi0, it brings the card into the correct mode on boot.
However, when I try to change settings while the machine is up it
often
freezes for several seconds. Upon resume, the output of wicontrol
seems to
be jibberish. I have had logging turned off for the most part to
conserve
space and am not currently at the machine, but I was wondering if
anyone
else has experience similar problems. If not, then I will gladly
follow this
up with some more debug info shortly.
