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

[Ryan Abbenhuys]

Isn't best practise to use identical cards? :-\

>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
>pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
>IM:bulwynkl2002
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>Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 
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