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author | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-01 18:26:49 +0000 |
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committer | imp <imp@FreeBSD.org> | 2003-03-01 18:26:49 +0000 |
commit | 3827359bd172ebdf43058b45d6909a733d68d9ab (patch) | |
tree | 39a317ad03a1e6e6058ccc0d0c663c7fa6cc03ab /share | |
parent | 24eb4f5a923deecee5dfa7a2adeccd87d46dadc2 (diff) | |
download | FreeBSD-src-3827359bd172ebdf43058b45d6909a733d68d9ab.zip FreeBSD-src-3827359bd172ebdf43058b45d6909a733d68d9ab.tar.gz |
Add notes about which versions of firmware is known to work/fail with
various functions of the card. Be pedantically careful to use 'station
firmware' when talking about the version of Prism firmware.
As always, word-smithing welcome.
MFC-After: Tom Rhodes wakes up and notices :-)
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man4/wi.4 | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man4/wi.4 b/share/man/man4/wi.4 index 58ab7c9..63601a1 100644 --- a/share/man/man4/wi.4 +++ b/share/man/man4/wi.4 @@ -328,11 +328,26 @@ See for information on different regulatory domains. .Pp The Intersil Prism family of chips' host-based access point mode has -bugs for firmware versions prior to 0.8.3. -The driver currently precludes hostap functionality on old firmware. +bugs for station firmware versions prior to 0.8.3. +The driver currently precludes hostap functionality older station +firmware. +The best version of the station firmware for the Prism family of chips +seems to 1.4.9. +Some users of Prism 2 and 2.5 based cards report that station firmware +version 1.3.4 work better for them in hostap than 1.4.9. +Older versions of the Prism station firmware has a number of issues +with hostap mode. +IBSS/adhoc mode appears to work well on station firmware 1.3.1 and +newer. +IBSS/adhoc mode also appears to have problems for some people with +older versions of station firmware. .Pp Lucent cards prior to firmware version 6.0.4 do not support IBSS mode. +These cards support only the pre 802.11 mode known as +.Dq "demo ad-hoc mode" +which doesn't interoperate with stations in IBSS mode. +.Pp .Sh BUGS Not all the new messages are documented here, and many of them are indications of transient errors that are not indications of serious |