Well, my 802.11g access point and pcmcia card came in today. It's odd, they both came UPS ground but one showed up in the morning and then the second one showed up late afternoon. UPS is not known for showing up several times. In this case I am glad they did. The pcmcia card worked no problems with the prism54 driver from prism54.org. It worked well with my existing 802.11b access point, then I connected the new 802.11g AP and it came up fine there too.

The access point is fun to play with. It runs Linux under the hood. I first looked over the 2.00 firmware it shipped with. All the usual things you would expect to have on an AP. Then I upgraded to the latest Linksys one, which is 2.02.8. The firmware upgrade worked fine, and it had a few new features, nothing too exciting. Then I decided to be daring and load the Satori_v2_2.00.8.7sv-pre1.bin.zip Firmware. It's very slick. ssh support, firewall support all kinds of things. It's fun to ssh in and look around on the access point. Will have to keep playing with it in the days to come. I wonder if I shouldn't buy another one before they stop making them.

One slight problem I ran into is suspend/resume not working right with the new pcmcia card. Looks like I made the pcmcia support builtin instead of modular. Oops. Oh well, it gave me a chance to build a new 2.4.25-rc2 kernel with the prism54 stuff built in.