[MLB-WIRELESS] Kernel panic

[Robert Tchia]

Sorry I am newbie, but what is a kernel panic?

I got mine working last night. When I 1st installed the driver, it was
loaded fine, but no signal was sent from wl200. I removed it and
installed on win98 PC run some test. Re-installed it back on the linux
box and all was working.

I heard that there was some issue with the firmware that ship with the
card and also the 0.8.0 version Compaq provided.

If you got the same batch as I from TIB bulk buy, then the firmware is
very old. Even windows have problems with it. I had to use this
(ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp14501-15000/sp14796.exe) dos
firmware updater to update it to 0.8.0. Install the driver
(ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq/sp15501-16000/sp15584.exe), then use
this (http://www.goonda.org/wireless/utils/UpdFw8c3.zip) to update the
firmware to 0.8.3. 

IF you don't use dos firmware updater, windows driver won't work.

Hope this help
Rob

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au [mailto:owner-
> melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of sanbar
> Sent: Thursday, 8 August 2002 8:56 PM
> To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
> Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Kernel panic
> 
> Ey all,
> I have a WL200 running under Linux. It fires up okay, and I can raise
set
> the card in full Master mode, but after a short while it suffers from
a
> kernel panic, seemingly at random. I no understand.
> Output from uname, iwconfig and dmesg is after the sig. Apologies for
the
> size of this message, but it's relevant to wireless. OS is Red Hat
7.3.
> Please snip before you reply :/
> 


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