Jonas Karlsson wrote:
> 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?
Nothing at all...
Anyhow, I just found out that most WG511v2 (which I actually have) uses
another chipset than prism54, and that one should use the ndiswrapper...
Trying that now.
--
/Jonatan - http://kymatica.com
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