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patters Tinkerer -------- Joined: Feb 3, 2025 Posts: 52 Likes: 42 |
Oct 22, 2025 - #1
I went down the rabbit hole of getting WPA2 connectivity on my Amiga 600. It's much slower (around 0.1x) than a wired NIC, but it's a weird sort of flex - modern wifi connectivity without compromising security, on a 33 year old computer.
I found a couple of suitable Prism2 wifi cards for around GBP12 each on eBay. The challenge is how do you flash the firmware on one of these cards if you don't have a working early 2000s Windows PC with 16bit card slots? The answer is you buy a smashed up old laptop off eBay for peanuts and then spend several evenings working out how to run a Live Linux distro with a working toolchain for recompiling kernel modules. The good news is that I documented the process, which I successfully used on a GBP5 laptop with no hard disk and only 128MB of RAM: GitHub - patters-match/prism2-flashing: How to firmware upgrade Prism2 PCMCIA wifi cards using a live Linux distroHow to firmware upgrade Prism2 PCMCIA wifi cards using a live Linux distro - patters-match/prism2-flashing
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