Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 119927
netgear wg511 54mb card with prism chip will not work
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:39 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040312 Description of problem: My 11mb card works fine but my 54mb card does not even light up. When i launched network to configure it--it shows a generic prism card but not lights come on and it will not work. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.4-1.305 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.put in netgear wg511 54mb card 2. 3. Actual Results: no lights or networking Expected Results: the card light would light up to show it is acknowledged Additional info: Please tell me what i can do to help find the problem.
my prism 54g card needs firmware to be installed from the orignal cd that came with it; have you installed such firmware ? /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/isl3890 is the filename I had to give it (on the cd it was called isl3890.arm) the dmesg command will show the kernel log; the driver should spew there which filename it is expecting and failing to load
see also http://www.prism54.org/ btw; the driver is included in your kernel already but that site might provide useful resources on how to do the firmware etc etc
Thank you so much for your helpfulness. I install the isl3890 and bang--it works fine. This is a lot easier than before when i had to compile modules etc. Now, if you can just get the kernel to not lockup when other things don't work. thank you