ibm minipci wlan firmware

[Greg Troxel]

> I am now in the process of updating and reinstalling my T30 and
> noticed a firmware for that card from Feb.25 2003 (v1.04.09.02).
> Is it safe to update the firmware or did anyone run into problems?

The IBM release notes say that 1.04.09 and 1.04.09.02 have the same
firmware and are just an updated loader.  So if you have 1.04.09 you
probably don't need to update.  I presume this is 'station' firmware
rather than 'primary' firmware.

I have a T30 running netbsd 1.6.1 (I know this is a freebsd list but I
suspect most issues are similar).

  wi0 at pci2 dev 2 function 0: Intersil Prism2.5 Wireless Lan
  wi0: interrupting at irq 11
  wi0: 802.11 address [redacted]
  wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI)
  wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary (1.1.0), Station (1.4.9)
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 13b/0; last status 813b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to 13b/44; last status 813b

which seems to work fine modulo occasional timeouts above and

  wi0: device timeout
  wi0: command timed out, cmd=0x2
  wi0: wi_cmd: BUSY did not clear, cmd=0x0
  wi0: init failed
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fce0/0; last status 800b
  wi0: device timeout
  wi0: command timed out, cmd=0x2
  wi0: wi_cmd: BUSY did not clear, cmd=0x0
  wi0: init failed
  wi0: device timeout
  wi0: command timed out, cmd=0x2
  wi0: device timeout
  wi0: command timed out, cmd=0x2
  wi0: device timeout
  wi0: command timed out, cmd=0x2
  wi0: command timed out, cmd=0x10b
  wi0: xmit failed
  wi0: device timeout
  wi0: command timed out, cmd=0x2
  wi0: wi_cmd: BUSY did not clear, cmd=0x0
  wi0: init failed
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fce0/0; last status 800b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc07/0; last status 800b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc00/0; last status 800b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc83/0; last status 800b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc84/0; last status 800b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc06/0; last status 800b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc09/0; last status 800b
  wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc0c/0; last status 800b

In general it works fine, and it recovers from these problems without
any intervention.

        Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com>