Subject: Re: WARNING RE: PROXIM rangelan-ds pcmcia and netbsd
To: Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom <chrome@real-time.com>
From: billy ball <bball@tux.org>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 01/16/2002 01:07:48
any pointers on the Linux-based flash upgrade appreciated... if i were
unscrupulous, i'd return the card as defective (but then i'd have to look
myself in the mirror every time i sold something on ebay)
:-)
On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > i couldn't get the card to work with NetBSD or Linux... however, upon
> > browsing, i ran across a web page with a link to a firmware updater app
> > that *supposedly* would enable access point features of the card and help
> > compatibility issues...
>
> yeah, our wireless dude here says that those cards need a flash update to
> work well with Linux/*BSD.
>
> > i should have known better, but in a fit of exuberant hopefulness i
> > followed the posted and included directions, which said to get the card
> > working under [shudder] Win98se, and then to run the flash utility...
> >
> > the update started and ...
> >
> > promptly hung and locked the system...
>
> after seeing win98 lock hard while trying to format a floppy, I distrust it
> at every turn.
>
> the wireless guy here says that there's a linux flash-upgrade utility for
> that card; and you might be able to try using that to fix the card.
>
> Carl Soderstrom.
>