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From: Gold, Paul E (PaulEGold
Mediamark.nopworld.com)
Date: Thu Jun 24 2004 - 09:35:39 CDT
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>Today (here in remote Australia) I bought 2 Netgear cards, brand-new,
>the MA311RA (PCI) and the MA401 (cardbus).
>Both are Prism 2.5 and cost lots more than the (unsupported) way faster
>new ones but my ADSL line is only 1536Kb/s so I guess 802.11b is fine.
>.8-)
>
>I am about to learn how to upgrade the firmware so the PCI card can do
>duty as an access-point (it only has 1.3.6 and needs 1.6.3 or better)
>and if anyone has hints on that I'd like to hear them.
Just thought I'd point out, I have a Netgear MA311 running in hostap with
the 1.3.6 firmware. Works just fine (3.5 stable) Worked on 3.3 as well.
$ dmesg | grep wi0
wi0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0 "Intersil PRISM2.5 Mini-PCI WLAN" rev 0x01:
irq 9
wi0: PRISM2.5 ISL3874A(Mini-PCI), Firmware 1.0.7 (primary), 1.3.6 (station),
address 00:09:5b:74:05:03
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