Re: wi(4) fixes

[Anwar Puthu <anwar@puthu.org.uk>]

Thanks for the info.  As you guessed it, my card does have station firmware version 1.4.9!  

wi0 at pci0 dev 13 function 0 "Intersil PRISM2.5 Mini-PCI WLAN" rev 0x01: irq 10
wi0: PRISM2.5 ISL3874A(Mini-PCI), Firmware 1.1.0 (primary), 1.4.9 (station), address 00:02:6f:06:6b:2b

I'll upgrade ASAP!

Thanks to everybody again for your help.

Rgds,

Anwar.


Begin On Thu, 4 Mar 2004 18:52:25 +0000, Pedro la Peu <pedro@am-gen.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 04 March 2004 17:16, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> 
> > I would suggest you do as much with ifconfig as possible and
> > move the wicontrol line to be first.  E.g.
> >
> > !wicontrol \$if -e1 -f7
> > inet 192.168.100.101 255.255.255.0 NONE nwid home.net nwkey 0x... mediaopt
> > hostap
> 
> I held off responding thus far as I won't have access to my test environment 
> to check my facts until the weekend. But, the short story is:
> 
> I had similar problems after updating a Linksys WMP11 to station firmware 
> 1.4.9, I could no longer decrypt data frames in frmon (WI_DEBUG_MONITOR). 
> 
> Non encrypted and mgmt/ctrl frames were fine. I figured a firmware bug was the 
> culprit when I found software WEP was also broken (for me) in hostap mode 
> with this firmware. I assumed hostap had the same decrypt problem.
> 
> I reverted the card back to an older(?) station firmware and the problem went 
> away. I have tried a fair few firmware versions and this seems specific to 
> 1.4.9. Or maybe just the 1.4.9 image I'm using...
> 
> -p