From: David Turvene <dturvene@comcast.net>
To: jsun@junsun.net
Subject: Another informative session flashing a PRISM card - Thanks!

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I needed to upgrade a Linksys WPC11 v3 (PCMCIA) card from 1.1.0/1.4.2 to
1.1.1/1.7.2.  I tried to use the MSWindows instructions from an XP
system but it kept failing with write locked.  There was no way to
disable the lock from the XP device manager.

Next I downloaded and installed the hostap driver on my Toshiba 8100
PIII laptop running Fedora Core 2 2.6.10-1.14_FC2.  After several cycles
getting the configuration correct to actually load the hostap driver
instead of the orinoco driver, it came up.  I recompiled hostap using
your instructions to enable download.  I reinserted the wpc11 card and
it came up.  Hostap seems to be very solid, and pushing forward with
stronger encryption than WEP.

Several gotcha's in FC2 along the way.  The FC2 "neat" tools help with
most of the configuration, but end up hiding clues when the
configuration is bad.  Here are some notes - probably not the BEST way
to do this, but it worked for me.
* FC2 uses files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts to bring up the
network cards.  Do a softlink from somewhere else (usually
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices) to this directory for ONLY the active
devices. In this case, ifcfg-wlan0 and keys-wlan0.
* If you have HWADDR in your ifcfg-<ifname> file and the card does not
match, then the shell script, "ifup", fails  silently when the card is
hot-plugged.
* The /etc/pcmcia/config file picks up the LAST binding for a card.  It
has a line at the bottom
"source ./*.conf" that will always pick up the hostap driver.  To bounce
between orinoco and hostap, I ended up with the following block,
commenting out the driver I didn't want and then doing a "service pcmcia
restart" to reload the file.

 card "Linksys Instant Wireless Network PC Card WPC11 v3"
 manfid 0x0274, 0x1613
#  bind "orinoco_cs"
 bind "hostap_cs"

Tha