--On 19 September 2005 20:24 -0400, Alex Kirk wrote:
> wi0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0 "National Datacomm Corp NCP130 Rev
> A2" rev 0x01: irq 9 wi0: PRISM2 HWB3163 rev.B, Firmware 0.3.0
> (primary), 1.7.1 (station), address 00:80:c6:e3:72:2c
It's ancient but it should work.
It was the most current I could find for this particular chipset. If
you know of any more modern versions that are supported for this
card, I'll happily install them. :-)
With an old card and old OS release, it might be worth trying older
station (secondary) firmware too... I've often seen 1.4.9 recommended
unless newer features are required (e.g. 1.5.6 for WDS, 1.6.3 for
beacon hiding [not that it's really useful], etc).
There are collections of PRISM firmware at
<http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/firmware/> 1.4.9 to 1.8.4
<http://www.netgate.com/info/miniPCI/Prism/Firmware/> 1.1.0 to 1.7.4
<http://linux.junsun.net/intersil-prism/> has more info on filename
conventions and how to identify which cards you can use different flash
files with (there are different files for PRISM2 and PRISM2.5, for
example). Some things suggested on that page are linux-only though.
But I think you should try a newer OS release before playing that
game... If you want to make a quick test before installing, you could
use a flashboot-bindist kernel.
