Can I upgade firmware PRI:1.1.1/STA:1.5.6 on DWL-520

Javor Marinov amoeba at dsm-wireless.com
Mon Mar 3 07:45:48 EST 2003


hellow, masters 

this are certainty facts =)
I'm using: 

root at cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc:~# uname -a
Linux cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc 2.4.20 #6 Thu Jan 16 00:28:21 EET 2003 i586 unknown
root at cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc:~# cat /etc/slackware-version
Slackware 8.1 

DWL520
00:0e.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor: Unknown device 3873 (rev 
01)
       Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 3501
       Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
       Memory at fd000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
       Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2 

Mar  2 21:04:50 cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc kernel: hostap_pci: hostap_pci.c 0.0.0 
2002-10-12 (SSH Communications Security Corp, Jouni Malinen)
Mar  2 21:04:50 cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc kernel: hostap_pci: Registered netdevice 
wlan0
Mar  2 21:04:50 cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc kernel: wlan0: NIC: id=0x8013 v1.0.0
Mar  2 21:04:51 cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc kernel: wlan0: PRI: id=0x15 v1.0.5
Mar  2 21:04:51 cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc kernel: wlan0: STA: id=0x1f v1.3.4
Mar  2 21:04:51 cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc kernel: wlan0: Intersil Prism2.5 PCI: 
mem=0xfd000000, irq=9 

root at cc-wlan-13-ad-hoc:~# iwconfig --version
iwconfig  Version 26
         Compatible with Wireless Extension v15 or earlier,
         Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v14. 

wlan0     Recommend Wireless Extension v13 or later,
         Currently compiled with Wireless Extension v14. 

so sorry for long post.... 

MY QUESTION is: 

Can I upgrade firmware PRI 1.1.1/STA 1.5.6 on this card?
Becouse, on the www.dlink.com I can't find firmware for DWL-520 

I find somewhere information for problem with STA:1.3.4
may be corrupt packets .. or something like this .. 

If this upgrade is possible,
where I can get this firmware , and
how is better to upgrade: with windoze utils or with prism_srec ? 

btw, I get tarball with STA1.5.6 from message:
http://lists.shmoo.com/pipermail/hostap/2003-January/001089.html
following link http://aldebaran.feld.cvut.cz/~xmyslik/wifi 

Just I can't understand, is all this firmwares are compatible wiht all
prism2;2.5 chipsets
or may be firmware 1.4.9 is good ? 

Thanks in advance! 

sorry for my bad english , I'm Bulgarian =) 

bye



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