From: Alex Kirk (alexschnarff.com)
Date: Mon Dec 06 2004 - 11:50:07 CST

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Quoting Pedro la Peu <pedroam-gen.org>:

> On Monday 06 Dec 2004 12:58, Alex Kirk wrote:
>
> > While software WEP did not allow me to use a properly sized encryption
> key,
>
> What do you mean?

That even when I enabled software WEP, I could not use a key of over 13 bytes --
i.e. "ABCDEFGHIJKLM" works, but not "ABCDEFGHIJKLMN".

> Read the page below and the those linked from it. There are bootable Linux
> floppies/cds that have the ability to update Prism firmware.
>
> http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/
>
> I prefer the Intersil winupdate.exe utility. YMMV.
>
> As it's an HWB3163 rev.B (i.e. old Prism2) card many firmware images won't be
>
> compatible. Primary 0.3.0 (you already have it) and station 1.5.6 or 1.7.1
> are the most recent AFAIK.

Thanks very much for the info.

Do you (or anyone else reading this) think it would make sense to add
information regarding firmware updates to the wi(4) man page, with the caveat
that any procedures noted are undertaken at the card owner's own risk? If not
specific step-throughs or links to info pages, perhaps even a note that, for
example, any Prism-based firmware update tool will work on any card with a Prism
chipset?

Alex Kirk

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