On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 06:54:27AM GMT, Bill Moseley <moseley@hank.org> incoherently babbled: > I'm looking for an overview of how to setup the prism54 drivers. > > I've got a netgear wg511 card. > > There's a wiki entry about debian at: > > http://prism54.org/phpwiki?pagename=Prism54%20Debian%20HowTo > > I have a 2.6.5 kernel and it does have a PRISM54 kernel config option. > So I'm not clear what or if anything needs to be downloaded from > http://prism54.org/download/ -- seems like I may if I want to use the > prism54 1.2 or cvs versions. > > Anyone installed the prism54 drivers lately? I have the 3Com 11g Office Connect PCMCIA card which uses the prism54 driver as well. The instructions to setup are easy and listed on http://www.prism54.org Make sure you have the required packages (hotplug, wireless tools, etc) All you do is download the firmware (see http://www.prism54.org for a link), put it into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/ Take a precompiled or custom compiled kernel (I use 2.6 kernels which have the prism54 driver since 2.6.6, no idea about the 2.4 series), check it's config (/boot/config-$kernel-ver if it's a packaged kernel) to ensure the following lines are set: CONFIG_NET_RADIO=y CONFIG_NET_WIRELESS=y CONFIG_PRISM54=m or CONFIG_PRISM54=y Once they are and you have a prism54 module (or the driver built in) loaded, you have a standard ethX which you can configure with /etc/network/interfaces (see /usr/share/doc/wireless-tools/ for more info) -- Conall O'Brien +353 (0)87 9194139 | http://www.conall.net GPG Key: http://www.conall.net/gpg/ Non erravi periciose! (I did not commit a fatal error!)
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