[semi OT] Prism54 firmware loading

[Justin Conover]

On 4/20/05, Jesse Keating <jkeating at j2solutions.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to load a firmware for my Prism54 device.  I've grabbed the
> 1.0.4.3 firmware from http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/ and placed it
> in /lib/firmware/ named as isl3890 for my Prism Duette device.  I got
> the firmware to load once according to dmesg, but iwconfig would not
> assign it an ESSID when prompted to.  I also got a message like
> "Warning: your driver is compiled with wireless extensions version 17
> but you are using version 16.  Things may not work".  After a reboot, I
> was no longer able to get the firmware to load.  It just wouldn't do
> that step, not sure why.
> 
> Does anybody have experience with using Prism54 in FC4 Test2?  This is
> the only test platform I can use right now ):
> 
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This might look ugly, but I just make a little script in my users dir
and run it as root when ever I go wireless.

[justin at tank laptop]$ more wireless.sh
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 down
/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart
/sbin/iwconfig eth1 key <yours>
/sbin/iwconfig eth1 essid <yours>
/sbin/ifconfig eth1 up
/sbin/dhclient eth1