Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 00:57:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: Dirty Harry <harryofwade@yahoo.se>
Subject: another success
To: jsun@junsun.net

Hi

Just did one successful update on a senao card "NL-2511CD Plus Ext2" don't know
if anyone is interested but here it is. Even if this worked for me it might
fail for you, so no promises...

The start:
I got an wireless bridge SL-2611 AP3 Plus 1.00 with the above senao card inside
it with american ver of firmware and everything worked fine until our
accesspoint i use changed channel outside 1-11, yep 13 so something had to be
done. I had one old Compaq laptop which has win98 clean install (not win98SE)
perfect since it has pcmcia ports.

I looked around, and all the single floppy with linux distros i could find had
old vers of Hostap and prism2_srec around 2003 and i know i could make my own
floppy and build but since it already had win98 in it i decided to use it.

Then go to http://www.ciudadwireless.com/webdoc/senaoregion/
get the winupdate and install it,and then the files (senaoUSA.pda,sf010800.hex)
then get the hard to find drivers, the ones that worked for me was
Kobishiwireless.zip i found them here(do the free registration):
http://members.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid=131677
unpack and place them on the desktop.)

 OK i opened the wireless bridge and pulled out the senao card(be careful taking
off the antennacord use small screwdrivers on both sides of the connector to
pull it straight out). Place it in the one of the pcmcia slots and
power up,(i reconnected the antenna cord and used the small antenna that came
with the bridge don't dare think what the SWR would be without antenna) after
win98 detects hardware then searching for drivers point it to the folder with
drivers "New Driver"-"Driver"-"Win9x-2k" then ok. Restart, then the led should
turn on, and you're set for the next step.

start the winupdate, drag and drop the above 2 files(senaoUSA.pda,sf010800.hex)
in the winupdate window, you don't have to do anything else than flash, but i
suggest making a backup of your firmware there is one option in the menus, also
you might want to have same MAC nr you had before there are options to change
that too otherwise it will be changed to the one in the flash files. In my case
it doesn't matter so i flashed it it takes about 10-15 s then done
firmware ver before was 1.4.9
now it reads 1.8.0 (if i remember it correct)

all 1-13 ch works fine with full power, yahoo


If anyone was helped by this i'm glad

regards

Harry