any pointers on the Linux-based flash upgrade appreciated... if i were 
unscrupulous, i'd return the card as defective (but then i'd have to look 
myself in the mirror every time i sold something on ebay)

:-)

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> > i couldn't get the card to work with NetBSD or Linux... however, upon 
> > browsing, i ran across a web page with a link to a firmware updater app 
> > that *supposedly* would enable access point features of the card and help 
> > compatibility issues...
> 
> yeah, our wireless dude here says that those cards need a flash update to
> work well with Linux/*BSD.
>  
> > i should have known better, but in a fit of exuberant hopefulness i 
> > followed the posted and included directions, which said to get the card 
> > working under [shudder] Win98se, and then to run the flash utility...
> >
> > the update started and ...
> > 
> > promptly hung and locked the system... 
> 
> after seeing win98 lock hard while trying to format a floppy, I distrust it
> at every turn. 
> 
> the wireless guy here says that there's a linux flash-upgrade utility for
> that card; and you might be able to try using that to fix the card.
> 
> Carl Soderstrom.
>