[ltp] Prism54 and Mandrake 10.2 - solution

Richard Neill linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:42:07 +0100


Dear All,

I just tried to get my new wireless card to work with mdk. No luck, I 
get the errors:
	
	 no lights on card.
	iwconfig -> "Not Ready!"
	dmesg: Prism54 request_firmware() failed for 'isl3890'

Cause: Mandrake haven't installed the firmware for the card. It doesn't 
seem to be available in any of the packages.

Fix:  Copy the directory /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
       from Knoppix (I used 3.7).

It now works!


Hope that's useful

Richard