Re: wi(4) fixes

[seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)]

In message <006901c40258$e9a44110$3000000a@jaginfoss>, "Steve Shockley" writes:
>I've been using a Prism II 1.5.6 PCI-only card in HostAP for a couple of 
>months.  The only problems I see are occasional dropouts (clients see "You 
>are now connected to <accesspoint>" messages) but no connections ever drop. 
>Slightly annoying, but livable.

>I had a Netgear MA311 card (Prism 2.5) that would fall over under load.  (I 
>think the technical term was "the chip would go out to lunch", check the 
>archives.)  That was under firmware 1.3.6, with 1.4.9 I think the clients 
>would associate but never communicate and 1.7.4 the signal would go up and 
>down.  I'm loath to put the card back into an OpenBSD machine...

Is this the thing where the chip suddenly stops interrupting or responding in
any way to input?  Man, I hate that.

My best luck has been with 1.5.6.  Annoyingly, the only firmware updater I've
ever found works under Windows 98, but not under anything else.

-s