prism54 not loading firmware...

Per Bjornsson perbj at stanford.edu
Thu Apr 21 23:09:41 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 13:39 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> I'm trying to test a Prism54 device, and I can't seem to coax the
> firmware into loading.  I have dropped the firmware (with the right
> name) into /lib/firmware as directed by /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent, and
> then probed the prism54 module.  No firmware gets loaded.

Have you used this device before? If you haven't, are you sure that it
isn't one of the newer "softmac" cards, for which there is no functional
Linux driver yet? (lack of specs - it's really unfortunate that the
previously most Linux-friendly wireless manufacturer sold out to
Connexant...)

/Per





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