WUSB54G firmware

[Wolfgang S. Rupprecht]

Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:
> Kevin Kofler wrote:
>> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>>> Jim, mine uses something called rt73.bin and I have no idea how it got in
>>> /lib/firmware... But that's what it appears to use.
>>
>> rt73 is a Ralink firmware, it has nothing to do with the OP's Prism WLAN.
>> It comes from the rt73usb-firmware package.
>>
> Let me state the facts and you can tell me why they don't mean the
> obvious... when I plug in the WUSH54G device, the disk blinks, the
> device blinks, and a wireless connection is made. On looking at the
> files in /lib/firmware I see that the most recently accessed file is
> rt73.bin. And that if I boot without plugging in the WUSH54G device
> that firmware is not accessed.
>
> I didn't pull that filename out of the sir, I looked to see what
> firmware was accessed. Are you saying that the access when the device
> is used is just a coincidence?

Does /var/log/messages say anything interesting?  On my laptop's
embedded radio I see kernel-tagged syslog messages indicating which
firmware file is getting loaded.  If that were present it would put an
end to any doubt.

Jun  3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/ucode5.fw
Jun  3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/pcm5.fw
Jun  3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0initvals5.fw
Jun  3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
Jun  3 10:32:19 ancho kernel: b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)

-wolfgang
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Wolfgang S. Rupprecht              Android 1.5 (Cupcake) and Fedora-11