On 19 Feb, this message from christophe barbe echoed through cyberspace: >> > Is someone aware of firmware update for the airport card? >> good question. > > I should have CC: ben. I hope you don't mind ben if I CC you. Is there > something like firmware update for this kind of hardware? If yes do you > know a way to know the firmware version?
Apple's Airport software regularly includes firmware updates for the Airport card. I also have strange problems with my Airport card, I can't get data through. Slow, interactive traffic will mostly work, although there are often dropouts of a few seconds (up to maybe 20 sec.) where my wireless monitor indicates noise level above signal level. But what kills it systematically is for example opening an X client through ssh, which makes a burst of traffic. THat _always_ leeds to a dropout. For what it's worth, my card currently has this firmware rev: pooh kernel: eth1: Looks like a Lucent/Agere firmware version 8.40 I posted a question about excessive Tx retries on my Airport card here a while ago. I'm still waiting for an opportunity to put my card in an OS X computer, since Apple has newer firmware than 8.40, but only bundled with the OS X Airport software. Hope this helps... Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
