Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 02:04:46 -0500
From: Arin Sarros <sarrosam@rose-hulman.edu>
To: jsun@junsun.net
Subject: Feedback: mini-HOWTO on flashing Intersil Prism chipsets

Hello,

You provided excellent instructions!  Things worked out extremely well
for me.

I have a PCMCIA D-Link Air DWL-650 (H/W:I3, F/W:8C2 is printed on the
back of the card.)

`cardctl ident 0` reports (I ran this after I upgraded the firmware, not
sure what it was before):
  product info: "D", "Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card", "Version 01.02", ""
  manfid: 0x0156, 0x0002
  function: 6 (network)

The hostap drivers report (before upgrading):

wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.7
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.5

I got the newer firmware from http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/firmware/.
 I used pk010101.hex from primary.tar.gz and sf010800.hex from
1.8.0.tar.gz.

After upgrading, the hostap drivers report:

wifi0: NIC: id=0x800c v1.0.0
wifi0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.1.1
wifi0: STA: id=0x1f v1.8.0

Before the upgrade, Kismet would die with a fatal error... something
about a failed ioctl having to do with 'channel'.  Now, Kismet loads and
runs flawlessly.  Also, the new firmware controls the led on the card
differently (better.)  I'm sure there are other improvements, but those
are the two that I noticed.

Your mini-HOWTO helped me flash my wireless card correctly the very
first time.  Thank you very much.

Arin