Chipset for hostap_cs

maline at post.cybercity.dk maline at post.cybercity.dk
Fri May 23 13:29:52 EDT 2003


So, I guess that if I buy an Intersil Prism 2.5 or 3 card, I will not meet
these FW problems.

Thanks for your replay, Pavel!
Martin


On Fri, 23 May 2003 10:13:24 -0700, Dave wrote
> Pavel,
> 
> I have been looking for RAM uploadable firmware for Prism 2 cards in 
> order to get them to support 4 address WDS. I have 1.5.6 RAM 
> uploadable for 2.5 chipsets but I cannot seem to get any Prism 2 
> cards to support 4 address WDS.
> 
> Is there a FW version that can be RAM uploaded to Prism 2 cards 
> which will support 4 address WDS? If so could you or someone mention 
> the HEX file name that works? I know you cannot provide the FW but I 
> have my own collection and I just need to know which version/file 
> will work for a Prism 2 card.
> 
> Thanks for any assistance!
> 
> -Dave
> 
> > On Fri, 23 May 2003, Martin Schiotz wrote:
> >
> > > I have two questions:
> > > Is there any difference between chipset 2, 2.5 or 3 when running
hostap
> ?
> > >
> > > And in general what is the difference between these chipsets ?
> >
> > I don't know the complete answer, but one thing that is important is
that
> > there is still no publicly available flashable firmware for Prism 2
> > chipset with correct support for 4-address frames used in wireless
> > distribution system (WDS).  If you want to use WDS with Prism 2 cards,
> > you'll need to load the new firmware every time or you can use
> > non-standard frame format supported by hostap.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Pavel Roskin
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