[ale] Fedora 12 and prism54 wireless card

[scott mcbrien]

I'm not surprised, if I remember from when I used it many years ago,
the firmware is not open source, and of course, Fedora does not ship
anything that is not open source.

Here's a guy that talks about getting the firmware from the windows
driver (about 1/2-2/3 down):

http://olemartin.com/compalCL50.php

-Scott

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Scott McBrien wrote:
>> Prism54 needed some non OSS firmware, at least it did back in the day.
>
> Yeah, have a rough time locating it now.  I guess Mandriva provided it,
> Fedora does not.
>
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> On Aug 16, 2010, at 7:40 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> 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.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>>
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