Re: WLAN: firmware upgrades?

From: Erik Hovland <erik.a.t.hovland.org>
Date: Fri Aug 13 2004 - 13:10:26 EDT

On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 04:49:42PM +0100, Calum Mackay wrote:
> On a related note to Maria's question: I assume there is separate
> firmware in the wireless LAN hardware itself.
>
> Is it possible to tell what rev of firmware this is, and is it possible
> to upgrade it, from Linux?

Type 'dmesg' and look for the at76c503a messages. The driver reports the
f/w version of the wifi device every time it loads.

> I wondered whether this could be causing my hangs...

This I wish I knew.

E

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