On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:35 -0400, Mathieu Béliveau wrote:
> As you all may know, the orinoco 8.x firmware appear quite unstable in
> monitor mode. I am not fully aware if this is due exclusively to the
> firmware itself or if the driver is somehow involved...
I believe the driver is not involved. I remember there was a patch for
an older version of the driver that was actually resetting the firmware
to achieve some stability of the monitor mode with 8.xx firmware.
> Anyhow, for
> anyone on linux wishing to use the previous firmwares which have been
> reported to be stable under monitoring (mostly version 6.16), it is
> necessary to flash the card from windows (one thing that we should
> avoid don't we). As another alternative, it has been proposed to use
> the hermesAP package which features a firmware extracting mecanism,
> still, it requires lots of patience and only seems to work under
> kernel 2.4.x.x
It's not really an alternative. I loads tertiary firmware into RAM,
which allows Master (AP) mode, but I don't think it allows monitor mode.
However, a similar mechanism for loading the firmware could be used to
load station firmware from Agere drivers, which could support monitor
mode better than 8.xx firmwares.
> I don't know the first thing about hex editing but if the usual
> scripts (e.g.: ez_usb and friends) for fetching/extracting the
> relevant firmware code from the windows exes could perhaps take
> command line options to determine which firmware to get, I think lots
> of users wishing to fully exploit their card capabilities will be most
> pleased.
I don't understand your point. I don't think HermesAP _tools_ need 2.4
kernel. You can start with them.
The scripts for extracting ezusb firmware are useless as starting point.
They deal with completely different firmware.
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Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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