Bill Davidsen davidsen@tmr.com writes:
Kevin Kofler wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
Jim, mine uses something called rt73.bin and I have no idea how it got in /lib/firmware... But that's what it appears to use.
rt73 is a Ralink firmware, it has nothing to do with the OP's Prism WLAN. It comes from the rt73usb-firmware package.
Let me state the facts and you can tell me why they don't mean the obvious... when I plug in the WUSH54G device, the disk blinks, the device blinks, and a wireless connection is made. On looking at the files in /lib/firmware I see that the most recently accessed file is rt73.bin. And that if I boot without plugging in the WUSH54G device that firmware is not accessed.
I didn't pull that filename out of the sir, I looked to see what firmware was accessed. Are you saying that the access when the device is used is just a coincidence?
Does /var/log/messages say anything interesting? On my laptop's embedded radio I see kernel-tagged syslog messages indicating which firmware file is getting loaded. If that were present it would put an end to any doubt.
Jun 3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw Jun 3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw Jun 3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw Jun 3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw Jun 3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
-wolfgang