>
> As it is unclear to me which firmware I should use (lspci outputs both 
> ISL3890 and ISL3886 for this device; http://prism54.org/fullmac.html tells 
> that these two cards should use different firmware), I also tried 1.0.4.3.arm 
> firmware - this time, it oopses, with no kernel panic:

hi,
there are the "old" kernel module called prism54.ko (in openwrt it is
the kmod-net-prism54 module) and a newer one ( kmod-p54-common and
kmod-p54-pci) which requires mac80211.
both need a firmware to run, but not while loading the kernel module,
but if the device will be up (ifconfig eth1 up) the firmware request
start looking for the firmware file in /lib/firmware.
the chip 3880 is hardmac, so you will need 1.0.4.3 and rename it to
isl3890. the chips 3886 and 3887 are softmac, so you need a 2.x
firmware (for ex. 2.7.0.0). more infos: hardmac docu, as you know is
under prism54.org und softmac docu is under http://islsm.org/wiki/
ia far as i remember the new driver was not working on kernels >2.6.19
but only prism54. now with kernel >2.6.24 the old driver prism54 is
not working anymore but the new one. tested on soekris (x86). i will
test later on to build a new openwrt image for mtx-1 (mips)
so long ulf
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