Wireless (again and again)?

Will Woods wwoods at redhat.com
Thu May 24 23:36:07 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 15:55 -0700, Knute Johnson wrote:
> Below is the content of /var/log/messages after I connect my USB 
> Wireless adapter.  I was told that this adapter was supposed to work 
> out of the box.  Can anybody tell me what to do to make it work?  I 
> need to have WPA working.
> 
> Thanks very much,
> 
> knute...
> 
> May 24 15:41:25 localhost kernel: usb 7-8: new high speed USB device 
> using ehci_hcd and address 6 May 24 15:41:25 localhost kernel: usb 7-
> 8:configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> May 24 15:41:26 localhost firmware_helper[2882]: Loading of 
> /lib/firmware/isl3887usb_bare for usb driver failed: No such file or 
> directory
> May 24 15:41:26 localhost kernel:p54usb: cannot find firmware 
> (isl3887usb_bare)! May 24 15:41:26 localhost kernel: prism54usb: 
> probe of 7-8:1.0 failed with error -2

Looks like you're missing the firmware. We don't have permission to
redistribute the prism54usb firmware, so you'll have to get it
yourself. 

You should be able to find it here: http://jbnote.free.fr/prism54usb/

-w
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