Sometimes Windows drivers will temporarily load a firmware into the
card's RAM. It may be necessary to put away the Windows driver for long
enough to flash the card with new firmware.

Dave

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:05:10PM -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> In message <20030312025243.GD10422@che.onthejob.net>, David Young writes:
> >You are using firmware 1.4.2 on the AP, aren't you? 1.4.2 broke HostAP.
> >1.4.9 fixes it. You can download 1.4.9 firmware from demarctech.com
> >or netgate.com.
> 
> Now I'm confused.
> 
> wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.2)
> 
> So, I boot under Windows... and the card is identified as 1.1.0/1.5.6, and
> warns me that 1.4.9 is a downgrade.
> 
> HUH?!?
> 
> I'm pretty sure it's the same card.
> 
> The Intersil driver downloader doesn't seem to care about the MiniPCI card
> built into my laptop (which is also 1.4.2), but I guess that's less
> surprising.
> 
> -s

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