[MLB-WIRELESS] Wifi card firmware questions - Netgear and Cisco

[paul van den bergen]

some FreeBSD4.8 boxes with wifi cards:

dmesg gives 
Netgear MA401:
using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873
Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.06

Cisco Aironet 350:
<Aironet PC4500/PC4800> at port 0x240-0x27f irq 5 slot 0 on pccard0
got RSSI <-> dBM map

ancontrol -I
OUI:                    [ 00:40:96 ]
Product number:         [ 10 ]
Manufacturer name:      [ Cisco Systems                   ]
Produce name:           [ 350 Series      ]
Firmware version:       [ 4 ]
OEM MAC address:        [ 00:09:7c:85:82:74 ]
Aironet MAC address:    [ 00:09:7c:85:82:74 ]
Radio type:             [ 802.11 DS ]
Regulatory domain:      [ 0 ]
Assigned CallID:        [ ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff ]
Supported speeds:       [ 1.0Mbps 2.0Mbps 5.5Mbps 11.0Mbps ]
RX Diversity:           [ antenna 1 and 2 ]
TX Diversity:           [ antenna 1 and 2 ]
Supported power levels: [ 1 5 20 30 50 100 0 0 ]
Hardware revision:      [ 00:22 ]
Software revision:      [ 04:25 ]
Software subrevision:   [ 00:17 ]
Interface revision:     [ 00:00 ]
Bootblock revision:     [ 01:50 ]

the question is...

I have been experiencing some intermitant bad behaviour wrt these cards 
communicating. either as adhoc or AP connections. some times they ping 
someties it breaks ping... and since I am trying to test mobility, I kinda 
need the connection to be reliable.

the thought occured to me that maybe it was a firmware related issue?

would anyone care to comment on firmware revision state of play for either of 
these cards and/or info on what the firmware upgrades are like?

(er... I also have a linksys wap11 v 2.2 - not sure what firmware... hang on.. 
let me look  1.009- feel free to comment on that too :-)

-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
caia.swin.edu.au
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