firmware

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Wed Sep 22 07:23:24 UTC 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 11:20:13PM -0500, Justin Conover wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 02:43 +0100, barry wrote:
> > Where do I put the prism54 firmware for my netgear wifi card? Can I use
> > wget to install it from that directory?
> > 
> > Barry
> > 
> > 
> 
> cd /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware/
> sudo wget http://prism54.org/~mcgrof/firmware/1.0.4.3.arm
> sudo mv 1.0.4.3.arm isl3890
> sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces
> [...]

Thanks for writing this up.  Would you like to add it to the wiki
(http://wiki.ubuntu.com) as a howto?  These cards are popular, and currently
they cannot be plug-and-play because the firmware must be obtained from a
distribution website.

-- 
 - mdz




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