Firmware for PCMCIA cards?

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:00:53 -0500, Airman Thunderbird wrote: : Is there such a thing? Have several no-name, literally, wireless B cards : that have realtek chipsets. Wondering if the firmware is upgradeable to : get the newer security methods, bug fixes, whatever.

I've never seen a Linksys card with upgradable firmware, but I believe that at least some Netgear cards have it. I'd be surprised if your old B cards had it or that it would make much difference if they did.

I have a wireless PC Card (with the copper strip, 802.11b, Gericom) with realtek chipset and found a newer driver on Realteks site. That driver (W2K) together with Buffalo's Client Manager2 (v2.1) enables both WPA-PSK and WPA AES encryption with the card.

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 07:00:53 -0500, Airman Thunderbird wrote in :

In general, these PC Cards are quite basic, with much of the functionality being provided by the host driver. Thus upgrading of the host driver for PC Cards is comparable to upgrading of the firmware in other types of devices.