Where can the Agere firmware be found? Period searches suggest that the
latest firmware and drivers for a Hermes1 based card (personally got an
Avaya Silver) dates from 12-18 months ago...
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:57:47 -0700
From: Jim Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [nycwireless] So has anyone been "hacked" yet? Bad
experiences?
To: Kevin Arima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Kevin Arima wrote:
> I guess my beef with the Wireless industry in general was the lack of
> upgradability for WPA/TKIP for existing cards. Every vendor was
> claiming
> that they'd come up with the upgrade, then... I guess the marketing
> department got the best of this situation, and forced us all to buy
new
> stuff to get that feature.
Intersil changed the firmware to allow TKIP, as did Agere (Lucent).
Atheros changed the driver.
> My other beef is Atheros' apparent lack of "good neighbor" policy with
> their "108mbps" chipset. Instead of using two nonoverlapping
> frequency,
> they had to use all _three_.
This isn't *quite* true. the use two adjacent channels, but the
spectral products run over the whole band.
What isn't normally understood is that there aren't "3 non-overlapping
channels" with 802.11g cards, either.
> I strongly discourage everyone from buying
> 108mbps-based products, because you _will_ make your neighbors unhappy
> when you interfere with their ability to get wireless.
All you have to do is run 802.11g either co-channel or on an adjacent
channel, and you will reduce their range and/or throughput.
Jim
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