From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050321 Firefox/1.0.2 Description of problem: The WUSB11 wireless USB adapter is quite a common device and is support by the wlan prism2_usb driver. Wouldn't it be cool to have it supported by Fedora out-of-the-box, both in the kernel and the wireless-tools package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Plug in WUSB11 Actual Results: /var/log/messages indicates device not recognised by a driver. Only the USB adapter itself is spotted. Expected Results: The prism_usb module should get loaded and the redhat-network-config tool should enable the user to configure the network interface. Additional info:
David, is the prism2_usb driver in the upstream kernel ? If not, this would be better done as an external kernel module RPM in Fedora Extras...
Either way seems fine to me. How does one look inside the upstream kernel? But why leave it festering amongst the extras? It must be a popular device because it is well established and cheap.
the problem with merging this into Fedora is that it uses wireless infrastructure (wlan-ng) that isnt currently present in the kernel, and merging it would effectively fork our wireless support from that as shipped in kernel.org kernels, which isn't going to happen. I'd suggest further discussion on getting this merged upstream happen on the wlan-ng mailing lists, and/or netdev.com