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

[Danny]

On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Clae wrote:

> At 7:55 PM +1000 13/6/02, Chris Drake wrote:
> >
> >'Enterasys can't be flashed as Lucents' this is mildly true. I have done it.
> >For some reason the card has issues with the lucent driver. I have no idea
> >why but it just does. So you install the entereasys driver forcefully

All you are doing is updating the Firmware on the card. It does NOT change
it into a lucent card. ie: The data in the CIS stays the same hence it
will still show up as a DEC/Roamabout (whatever it is) even after it has
been flashed.

The PCMCIA spec allows these cards to identify themselves. Ie: network
card, memory card, etc... Other info such as manufacturer, model whatever
can also be included. You'll probably find it in your /proc fs (under
linux), or in the "found new h/w" box in windows, or somewhere in dmesg
under netbsd. ie: It will tell you what the card is. :-)


To the point, this information is not changed with the firmware update. So
the card will still identify itself as a DEC/Roamabout after it has been
flashed with a lucent firmware update.


>
> Any chance you could clarify "issues" and "forcerfully"?
>

forcefully:

- Since the DEC/roamabout card identifies itself as a DEC/Roamabout
regardless of the firmware type/version (lucent/whatever) Windows doesnt
like to use the lucent drivers, it wants to use the DEC/Roamabout ones.

The lucent drivers are only needed if you want to reflash the card with
the lucent firmware.


issues:

Before firmware update:
- 2 machines (tibook/airport) and a Dell (win2k/roamabout card)
- constant dropouts, 80% packet loss.
- very slow connection (1mbs)
- machines were about 2-3 meters from each other

After firmware update: (on the dell) - (lucent firmware 8.10)
- Still using DEC/roamabout drivers
- All problems fixed :-)


Same problem with (netbsd/sparc box with the dec/roamabout) talking to the
tibook. After the lucent firmware was put on the dec/roamabout card,
everything was fine. :-)

These are based on my own experiences and observations, I am sure there
are some of you out there that have them working with the orig firmware..
cool :-)

I hope this clears some things up. :-)


---
Danny
UNIX/Solaris/SPARC/ASM/C/C++/Ess/WRX


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