[MLB-WIRELESS] FLASH ENTRASYS CARDS at Friday meet??

[Brendan Hiley]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Drake" <cadrake at optushome.com.au>
To: "Brendan Hiley" <Pro at ProFX.net>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] FLASH ENTRASYS CARDS at Friday meet??


> I would have to agree. DON'T bother flashing your cards.
Why?

>Unless you are going
> to use an open source operating system (linux, freebsd ect.) because it
will
> have an impact on the card.
What impact?

>You really should read the crap about flashing
> cards on both the lucent and enterasys cards. to sum it up. The software
> drivers (win9x ect. != open source drivers) load a temp firmware into the
rom
> of the card.
ROM != temp

>So if you have version 8.10 client you should have a 8.10
> 'firmware'.
You cannot use Orinoco clients with Enterasys cards, no matter what firmware
they have.
Why can't people understand this.

>But in an open source operating system there is no firmware being
> sent into the card therefore the firmware which is in the flash rom of the
> card will load and be put into the rom of the card.

Software patches, nothing else.

-ProFX


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