Subject: Netgear MA401 rev. D - firware upgrade
From: Daf <daf@yipikai.org>
To: jsun@junsun.net
Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 11:39:11 +0200

Hi all,

Just for informations, firmware upgrade on a Netgear MA401 rev. D ( an
old card but it works fine ) 

  product info: "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC", "Card", "ISL37300P",
"Eval-RevA"
  manfid: 0x000b, 0x7300
  function: 6 (network)

from :

NICID: id=0x800c v1.0.0 
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.0
STAID: id=0x001f v1.3.6

    to :

NICID: id=0x800c v1.0.0
PRIID: id=0x0015 v1.1.1
STAID: id=0x001f v1.8.0

works very well. 

commands :  root@laptop:~/ma401# prism2_srec wlan0 -f pk010101.hex
SF010800.HEX 
and                root@laptop:~/ma401# prism2_srec wlan0 -v -f
pk010101.hex SF010800.HEX

Run on Debian Sid 2.6.8-2-686 with packages pcmcia-cs 3.2.5-11,
hostap-modules-2.6.8-2-686 and hostap-utils
No need to recompile hostap-utils, PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT and
PRISM2_NON_VOLATILE_DOWNLOAD are already enabled by default ...
( simpliest as Debian ... )

Just a little strange stuff, maybe i am not alone in this case, when i
start pcmcia daemons, 2 networks interfaces are mounted, wlan0 and
wifi0 ... network / wireless configurations only works on wlan0, i dont
know what the wifi0 interface do there ...  ( ??! ), but that's
works ...

A lot of thx for this rally good documentsn thx 

I hope this feedback will help you

- DaFresh - 

Email : daf@yipikai.org