On Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:52:33 +0200, Jonatan Liljedahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> I bought a Netgear WG511 wireless pccard. Now I'd like to get it
> working... =)
>
> As far as I've understood, it's the 'prism54' kernel module.
> I installed PCMCIAUtils (created a recipe), which installed some udev
> rules...
> But also, one needs the firmware. Now, since we're using udev, it's udev
> that should handle the firmware loading... How do I do that?
> I have a udev rule like this:
>
> ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="firmware", ENV{FIRMWARE}="*", \
> RUN+="/sbin/firmware_helper"
>
> And I tried downloading lots of versions of firmware into /lib/firmware:
> 16/10 17:33 rw-r--r-- 93996 1.0.4.3.arm
> 16/10 17:33 rw-r--r-- 112128 1.1.0.0.arm
> 16/10 17:26 rw-r--r-- 29024 2.7.0.0.arm
> 16/10 17:26 rw-r--r-- 30056 gw3887
> 16/10 17:26 rw-r--r-- 30176 isl3886_usb
>
> But nothing happens, the lights on the card stays off...
> It's listed in lspci, and the prism54 module is loaded.
> Doing ifconfig eth1 up just gives me 'no such device'.
>
> Has anyone of you used this card? Or had similar problems?
>
I have a intel ipw2200, which requires firmware, but I haven't looked at
firmware loading lately, as I don't have time to mix with things that
work. Anyhow, what does 'dmesg | tail' give you when you insert the card?
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