Netgear FM114P
I have a Netgear FM114P router/AP/print server/4-port switch that broke down last year. The router stopped working and started emitting a whining noise.Yesterday, I decided to open the router to see, if I could find out what was wrong with it. The strange humming sound turned out to originate from the CPU, which seems to indicate that the CPU has somehow burned out. I had a little surprise as I opened up the router cabinet since it turned out to contain a PCMCIA WLAN card. Apparently, this card is responsible for the router's WLAN connectivity.
The card is unlabeled and I cannot seem to identify it from neither FCC ID (O6M-WM300), P/N (9511-3300ISC5) or S/N (BF270311101117).
Looking around, I found several resources that indicate that the PCMCIA card may be a Siemens I-Gate 11M PC card or some sort of Linksys card.
Various links to getting it to work:
Drivers from Siemens or Fujitsu-Semens
Archived discussion from Netstumbler Hardware forum
I am not a 100% on this (I have only tried in a laptop running XP with *service pack issues*), but the card seems to work, using the Linksys driver mentioned in the Netstumbler discussion.
***** UPDATE 08-08-2006*****
Using information from the Netstumbler discussion, I managed to identify the card. It's a Bromax OEM 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card (Prism 2.5).
- List of Prism firmware
- Flash Prism card HOWTO (WIndows/Linux)
- This driver should work
- This Linksys WPC11 driver might also work, and the driver package includes 'WinUpdate.exe' for firmware flash
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