Bug 111615
Summary: | [RFE] wireless 802.11g prism driver in future releases | ||||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | shrek-m <shrek-m> | ||||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Arjan van de Ven <arjanv> | ||||||
Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||||
Version: | 1 | Keywords: | FutureFeature | ||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | i686 | ||||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||||
URL: | http://prism54.org/ | ||||||||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |||||||
Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||
Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||||
Last Closed: | 2004-09-29 19:48:33 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||
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Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||||
oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||
Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||||
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Description
shrek-m
2003-12-06 15:56:50 UTC
these drivers currently aren't freely distributable yet.... (eg parts are under a very proprietary license and not the GPL) Created attachment 96383 [details]
smc2835w cardbus
Created attachment 96384 [details]
smc2802w pci
could you at least povide the basic requirements for the prism54 support in the 2.6.x-kernel ? thanks. http://prism54.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/prism54-ng/README?rev=HEAD and if possible: sysfs on /sys /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ [ for http://prism54.org/firmware/ ] http://prism54.org/~hvr/firmware.agent http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/linux-hotplug/admin/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent works great: # lsmod | grep prism prism54 67608 0 firmware_class 8608 1 prism54 # ifconfig eth0 up # ifconfig eth0 ip_adress # iwconfig eth0 mode ad-hoc essid PRISM-SSID # iwconfig eth0 Warning: Driver for device eth0 has been compiled with version 16 of Wireless Extension, while this program is using version 15. Some things may be broken... eth0 SMC2802W ESSID:"PRISM-SSID" Mode:Ad-Hoc Channel:1 Cell: 92:C9:65:B9:B9:49 Bit Rate:54Mb/s Sensitivity=20/0 Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B Encryption key:off Link Quality:158/0 Signal level:-50 dBm Noise level:-203 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Thanks for the bug report. However, Red Hat no longer maintains this version of the product. Please upgrade to the latest version and open a new bug if the problem persists. The Fedora Legacy project (http://fedoralegacy.org/) maintains some older releases, and if you believe this bug is interesting to them, please report the problem in the bug tracker at: http://bugzilla.fedora.us/ |