[ale] Fedora 12 and prism54 wireless card

Damon L. Chesser damon at damtek.com
Mon Aug 16 22:24:39 EDT 2010


On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 22:13 -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 19:40 -0400, 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.
> > 
> 
> Try the Prism54 project, that is how you did it in the "old" days three
> years past to about a year ago.  http://lekernel.net/prism54/

It seems the best thing to do is get a newer kernel, reading the pages
above, they say all prism54 should work with a current kernel.
-- 
Damon
damon at damtek.com



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