prism2.device is a SANA-II network driver for 11Mbps wireless Ethernet cards
based on the Prism II chipset and variants. It supports PCMCIA and
CompactFlash cards in the A1200/A600 and PCI cards in all AmigaOS 4 systems
and in PCs running Amithlon.
This version of prism2.device supports WPA and WPA2 encryption, including
both TKIP and CCMP/AES encryption modes. However, not all hardware
supports all encryption modes.
See the guide included in the archive for details of compatible cards and a
list of advantages and disadvantages for each card type.
Changes in this version:
- Fixed support for PCMCIA cards in the A1200 with the AmigaOS 4 driver
(broken since V2.5).
- Added support for A600 without an upgraded CPU.
- Reduced minimum AmigaOS version required to 2.05.
- Better stability with Hermes II cards.
- Now recognises 5 new hardware IDs for PCMCIA cards.
- Faster loading of Hermes firmware.
- Hermes firmware loading is now done in a more correct and
system-friendly way, avoiding temporary system freezes and potential
crashes.
- Added the WaitForLink utility, allowing startup of a TCP/IP stack during
boot to be postponed until a wireless connection is fully established.
- Cards with non-WPA-capable Hermes firmware can now scan for a new
network after disconnecting.
- Duplicate scan results are now also filtered out for non-WPA-capable
Hermes firmware.
- A workaround was added for a bug in early Hermes firmware versions that
sometimes broke network scanning if an unencrypted network was in range.
- Crashes caused by attempting to load WPA-capable firmware to early
Hermes cards that have no encryption hardware are now prevented.
- Promiscuous mode has been fixed.
- Fixed a bug in Ctrl-C handling that sometimes led to resources not being
released (WirelessManager).
- Fixed a memory leak (WirelessManager).
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