WLAN problem

Hi.

I've just installed OpenSuse 10.3 on my media center.
It used to be Ubuntu 7.10 and there WLAN worked with a little handy
work.

In other words I had to "blacklist prism54" in
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

I've done this on OpenSuse 10.3 too, but no luck.

Yast just says:

Wireless Network Card (not connected)
BusID : 0000:03:04.0
Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device is not
present

And I can not use "lshw -C network" to trouble shoot as I did on
Ubuntu.

Please help me.
I want to run OpenSuse.

Kind regards J;-)


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On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:26:02 GMT
Thusgaard <Thusgaard@no-mx.forums.novell.com> wrote:

>
> Hi.
>
> I've just installed OpenSuse 10.3 on my media center.
> It used to be Ubuntu 7.10 and there WLAN worked with a little handy
> work.
>
> In other words I had to "blacklist prism54" in
> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
>
> I've done this on OpenSuse 10.3 too, but no luck.
>
> Yast just says:
>
> Wireless Network Card (not connected)
> BusID : 0000:03:04.0
> Unable to configure the network card because the kernel device is not
> present
>
> And I can not use "lshw -C network" to trouble shoot as I did on
> Ubuntu.
>
> Please help me.
> I want to run OpenSuse.
>
> Kind regards J;-)
>
>
Hi
Have you tried with the blacklist entry removed?
Have a look here, you may need to follow the ndiswrapper link.

http://en.opensuse.org/HCL/Network_Adapters_(Wireless)

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I'd rather get it working with the firmware that is avaliable for my
card:


Code:
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Vendor: pci 0x1260 "Intersil Corporation"
Device: pci 0x3890 "ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [PrismJavelin/Prism Xbow]"

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But how do I install the Firmware?


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From the Wiki:
"You need to download the firmware, version 1.0.4.3, for the ISL3890 from the following URL http://prism54.org/fullmac.html

and saved the firmware file as isl3890 (no Capitals) in the /lib/firmware/ directory. I used in KDE KMenu/System/FileManager/ FileManager-SuperUserMode to download/save the firmware. "

HTH
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Hi

The files is saved to /lib/firmware/

What du I do next?
Should it work just by copying a file?

J;-)


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J,

configure the card using the prism54 driver, that should do the trick.

Uwe


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The card has always been configured to use the prism54 driver, via
YAST.

J;-)


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Thusgaard wrote:

>
> The card has always been configured to use the prism54 driver, via
> YAST.

If you want to use the prism54 as your driver you must _not_ have this name
in the blacklist.

OpenSUSE does not have lshw, use lsusb or lspci instead. See manpages for
info on options for these commands.

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