Its part of the driver these days. You could look around in here: http://www.agere.com/support/drivers/index.html
here's a slice of the README from the latest linux driver...
----------------------------------------------------------- 3. NEW IN THIS RELEASE
Version 7.17 - March 31, 2004
HCF6 Version 1.368
Hermes-I Firmware Version: 9.48
Hermes-II Firmware Version: 2.26
* Updated HCF6 code to latest release.
* Fixed a problem with 32 char SSIDs.
* Fixed a problem with setting more than one WEP key
per profile in the Agere proprietary iwconfig-eth<x>
file.
* Fixed an interoperability issue with certain
WPA-enabled access points whereby connections could
not be properly established. As mentioned below, for more information on WPA
support, please refer to Section 4.10.Version 7.17 - February 16, 2004 HCF Version: 1.365
Jim
On Apr 19, 2004, at 8:57 AM, Christopher Mc Carthy wrote:
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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On Apr 15, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Kevin Arima wrote:
newI 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 buystuff 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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