From: Ungoliant <ungoliant666@jazzfree.com>
Organization: Cofradía de magia de la Palabra Antigua
To: jsun@junsun.net
Subject: About Prism2 firmware flashing howto.
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 18:45:38 +0200

Hi! I've read your :

Mini-howto on Flashing Intersil Prism Chipsets
(Last update on 02/02, 2004)

and I've found it very helpful. Thank you very much for your time!!!!!.

Well , I have two prism2 cards to make 2 ap's and want the "hiding ESSID"
feature ( I love to play with these toys too XD XD ) , so I decided to
upgrade the firmware. The results ( at this moment) seem to be OK.

The cards:
- PRISM II (2.5) PCMCIA (SST parallel flash)
-Senao NL-25511CD plus ext2
-NIC id = 0x800C        v1.0.0
-PRI id = 0x15  v1.1.0
-STA id =0x1f           v1.4.9

I upgraded successfully them to:

-PRI id = 0x15  v1.1.1

and one to

-STA id = 0x1f  v1.7.4

and the other to

-STA id = 0x1f  v1.8.0

After that, I upgraded the v1.7.4 to v1.8.0

I used the prism2_srec to test and afterward flash the cards.
I'm using an up-to-date Debian SID with kernel 2.6.7 and hostap drivers
version 1.3.0

After upgrading the firmware I didn't received more kernel messages at boot
referencing a bug in WDS in the card's firmware.

Any day I'll try to flash an prism2 that comes with my linuxap ( SMC EZ
Connect Wireless Bridge SMC2682CW ). I'll tell you too.

Well, nothing more. If you have any question, please, mali me at
ungolian@teleline.es

Best regards and Thank you very much for your time again