New install - wireless card

[Ian Malone]

Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

 > Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
 >> Hi,
 >>
 >>
 >> I'm going to install FC4 on a new machine with a prism54 chipset for
 >> a wirelees card, is this supported out of the box, or must i install
 >> some pathes ?
 >
 >

 > Check if your card is listed on
 > http://prism54.org/supported_cards.php.
 > I've tried searching for a rpm package for that driver , but the only 
 > one I found was on Dag's repository , for FC1...
 > Try the prism54.org drivers. If they dont work , livna.org has
 > ndiswrapper packages for FC4 , so you can use the windows drivers on
 > linux.

<http://prism54.org/> throws some light on the reason:
"2004-04-16 23:26 UTC by mcgrof

Prism54 is now part of the stock kernel, 2.6.5."

FC 1 was released 5 November 2003, so I'd speculate that's the reason
for the FC 1 package.

[ian at localhost ~]$ ls /lib/modules/`uname 
-r`/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/prism54/
prism54.ko

So if it's supported by the prism54 driver then it will work.  Afraid I
don't use one so I can't offer any further help.  I notice though that
they still seem to be working on WPA support, so if you want that you
may end up having to install ndiswrapper and mess about a bit.

-- 
imalone