[ale] Fedora 12 and prism54 wireless card

[Geoffrey]

Geoffrey wrote:
> So I reloaded an old laptop with Fedora 12.  I know F13 is out there, 
> but I need F12.  Anyway, I've got a pcmcia wireless card that is based 
> on the prism54 chipset which worked just fine under Mandriva.  Plugged 
> it in and configured it.
> 
> Fedora apparently does not have the prism54 driver.  Can't seem to 
> locate a variant either.  Suggestions would be appreciated.

So apparently the driver module is there.  Problem is the firmware is 
not.  This really sucks.  I had this problem years ago when I first 
tried to get this working with Fedora.  Mandriva just bloody worked. 
Here I'm dropping to the shell to hack this in.

What the hell?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
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