[ale] Fedora 12 and prism54 wireless card

Geoffrey lists at serioustechnology.com
Tue Aug 17 06:57:36 EDT 2010


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/

That's exactly how I did it on my old Sony laptop.  I was searching for 
prism54.org, but apparently the domain is gone.  Thanks for the link.


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Until later, Geoffrey

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