Hi,

Here is another success story!

First of all thanks for your page, I wouldn't have succeeded without it.
I am running a Debian unstable on an AMD64 architecture.

Here is what I did:

1) Compiled a 2.6.16.9 with hostap support
2) apt-get install hostap-utils
3) wget http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/firmware/Latest-prism.tar.bz2
4) Unpack Latest-prism

Here I noticed some strangeness because udev was mapping wlan0 to
wlan0_temp (or wifi0_temp from time to time):

#~: iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0_temp  IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"
          Mode:Master  Access Point: Not-Associated   Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
          Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

eth1      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"test"
          Mode:Master  Access Point: Not-Associated   Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
          Sensitivity=1/3
          Retry min limit:8   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Yet, the procfs was stuck to wlan0 (/proc/net/hostap/wlan0) and cause
some incompatibilities.

So (many thanks to Pavel Roskin), here is the proper way:

5) cd /your/way/to/Latest-prism/
6) (as root) prism2_srec -f wlan0_temp -O /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/pda
primary-FLASH/pk010101.hex secondary-FLASH/sf010804.hex

(the "-O" option is making all the job)

Before the flash:

#~ hostap_diag wlan0_temp
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0_temp'

NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.0.7
STAID: id=0x001f v1.3.6 (station firmware)

After the flash:

#~ hostap_diag wlan0_temp
Host AP driver diagnostics information for 'wlan0_temp'

NICID: id=0x8013 v1.0.0 (PRISM II (2.5) Mini-PCI (SST parallel flash))
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.4 (station firmware)

Thanks a lot !
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