Re: Firmware upgrade for Airport card

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 08:46 +0100, Andreas Eichner wrote:
> Hi people,
> 
> i hope you can help me. I tried to get the Airport card in my iBook
> running but no luck. I googled a lot and finally I'm sure it is the
> firmware of my card that dosn't support the WEP encryption.
> 
> Current Firmware is Lucent/Agere 4.16
> 
> >From what I've seen I think I need at least a version greater then 6.xx.
> Has anyone an idea how to upgrade the firmware? Or do the WEP stuff in
> software? Found the ieee80211 headers included in orinoco driver source
> but it seems to be unused.
> 
> Thanks a lot for any kind of help. 

Most of the time, running an airport update from within OS 9 or OS X
will do the trick... though I had a couple of reports of cards where for
some reason, the firmware didn't get updated.

Ben.