Linksys WET11 (---) HostAP

Alexander Bögl a.boegl at amnet.at
Mon Apr 28 03:24:54 EDT 2003


Hi!

Thank you for your advice!
It seems that the WinUpdate utility needs a loaded driver for the card,
but where can I found that?

alex




Dave Wang schrieb:

>I have some advice for you.
>
>I had been experiencing wet11 crashes as well.  Lucky for us, the wireless card in the wet11 is prism based.  The problem I experienced with the wet11 (wet11 firmware 1.4.3) was that if I generated lots of upstream traffic (ie webserving behind wet11 bridged from Ethernet to wireless), it would crash in 3 seconds.  Downstream traffic, however, was fine.
>
>You have to void your warranty by taking the prism card out of the wet11 and then update the firmware on the prism card with the following utilities:
>
>http://www.red-bean.com/~proski/firmware/  (use firmware 1.5.6) http://wiw.org/~craig/WinUpdate-0-7-0.exe
>
>The original card firmware is sta:1.3.2 and pri:1.0.something.  Back those up.  
>It's been really stable for me so far.  I've only tested with 64bit wep.
>
>-dave
>dave at davidwang dot com
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexander Bögl [mailto:a.boegl at amnet.at] 
>Sent: Friday, April 25, 2003 1:30 AM
>To: hostap at shmoo.com
>Subject: Linksys WET11 (---) HostAP
>
>Hi!
>
>Im using 3 WET11 Ethernet Bridges with a Debian /Hostap 0.0.1 based AP, 
>which works fine for a couple of days,
>but then one by one, the WET11s crashes. I use the lastest(1.4.3)  
>firmware on the WET11s.
>
>Does somebody have any advice for me?
>
>
>Alex
>
>
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