Re: Wireless PCI Card Setup

From: JPB (jpb_at_email.pt)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:01:43 +0930

Joost van der Waa wrote:
> David Haggett wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:49:16 +0930, JPB wrote:
>>
>>
>>> eth0 NOT READY! ESSID:"amd-toaster" Nickname:"amd"
>>> Mode:Managed Channel:6 Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>>
>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>
>> Definitely not associated with the router/accesspoint. It's encouraging
>> that YaST has recognised it, though.
>>
>> Did you use YOU to "Download Firmware for PrismGT WLAN Cards"?
>> According to the patch description:
>>
>> "Due to legal reasons we can not include the firmware
>> for PrismGT wireless LAN cards in our product. This
>> patch downloads the firmware and installs it on your
>> system. Please note that about 1.5 MB data are going
>> to be downloaded."
>>
>> Just a thought.

Actually, you hit the right note on this one - the firmware update did
the trick! Thanks, David!

> I downloaded the firmware fot my wireless card too, but I couldn't find
> out how to install the firmware :-(

 From what I could see at the time, YOU downloads & runs a shell script
which then installs the firmware patch for you. All you need to do is
reboot.

Cheers,

John